Commentary
Performance Measures for Mental Healthcare in Singapore
Mental disorders are prevalent worldwide and while they are disabling and costly, they have not received that amount of attention and resources needed. A...
Grief Revisited
More than 225,000 people across Asia perished in the cataclysmic tsunami unleashed by the Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004. At this point...
Neuropsychiatry – An Emerging Field
Neuropsychiatry can be described as the interface between neurology and psychiatry – the intersecting field of enquiry for both the brain and the mind....
Risk Communications: In Search of a Pandemic
The first decade of the new millennium has seen a string of disasters worldwide – earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, typhoons and acts of terrorism –...
Sir Gordon Arthur Ransome (1910-1978) – His Teaching Style and His Legacy
Sir Gordon Arthur Ransome was born in Salop, England, in 1910.1 He came to Singapore in 1938, where he taught and practised medicine for...
Translating the Family Medicine Vision into Educational Programmes in Singapore
The core of the Family Medicine (FM) vision is patient-centred care, requiring specific education and vocational training. Modern day FM began its existence as...
Bridging the Gap between Occupational Medicine and Family Medicine
A significant similarity between family medicine and occupational medicine (OM) is the focus on disease prevention and health promotion. Family medicine aims for primary...
Improving Access to Outpatient Cardiac Care at the National Heart Centre – A Partnership...
There is evidence that shows that the use of healthcare delivered by private providers, particularly procedures and hospital care, depends on supply. For example,...
The Hospitalist Movement – A Complex Adaptive Response to The Hospitalist Movement – A...
Healthcare systems are complex adaptive systems. They are capable of self organisation through interacting agents that adapt to changes to the internal and external...
Internationally, it is Time to Bridge the Gap between Primary and Secondary Healthcare Services...
Around two-thirds of people with incurable diseases in economically developed countries wish to die at home, but less than one third succeed in doing...