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Health-related spending is the third largest expenditure item, after defence and education expenses. [16] As the median age of the population increases, Singapore's healthcare spending is expected to rise. Healthcare spending has risen from $4 billion in 2011 to $9.8 billion in 2016. [17] [18]
Some common indicators used to indicate health include total fertility rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, crude birth and death rate.As of 2017, Singapore has a Total Fertility Rate of 1.16 [5] children born per woman, an Infant Mortality rate of 2.2 deaths per 1000 live births, [6] Crude Birth Rate of 8.9 births per 1000 people [7] and a Death Rate of 3 deaths per 1000 inhabitants. [8]
After the British had re-established colonial rule in Singapore at the end of World War II, the first person appointed as a psychologist was V W Wilson. He was appointed to the colonial Medical Service on 11 September 1956 on contract from the United Kingdom to build up and incorporate a full psychological service within the mental health programme at Woodbridge. [3]
Singapore General Hospital. Singapore General Hospital (SGH) is Singapore's first general hospital [1] and also its oldest [1] and largest hospital. [1] It is located along Outram Road, in the heart of a medical hub known as the Outram Campus (comprising several medical institutions including the Health Promotion Board and Health Sciences Authority).
Singapore's indigenous culture originates primarily from the Austronesian people that arrived from the island of Taiwan, settling between 1500 and 1000 BCE.It was then influenced during the Middle Ages primarily by multiple Chinese dynasties such as the Ming and Qing, as well as by other Asian countries such as the Majapahit Empire, Tokugawa shogunate, and the Ryukyu Kingdom.
It was founded in 1998 to serve patients in the east and northeast of Singapore. In 2011, it left SingHealth to form the Eastern Health Alliance with other healthcare institutions in the area, but in 2017 merged back with SingHealth. Sengkang General Hospital is a 1,000-bed regional hospital in Sengkang. It was founded in 2012 to serve patients ...
Thatch explores the complex history of U.S. health care, from the Great Depression to the Affordable Care Act. Learn how key legislation shaped today's system and how innovations like ICHRAs are ...
The Medical History of early Singapore, Chapter 5. Singapore: Southeast Asian Medical Information Centre (SEAMIC), a special project of the International Medical Foundation of Japan (IMFJ) started in April 1977. Ng, Beng Yeong (2001a). Till the Break of Day: A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore, 1841–1993.