Volume 50, Number 2
Photo courtesy of Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore
Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most common and severe disabilities in childhood. The Cerebral Palsy Registry in Singapore was established in 2017 to describe the clinical characteristics and functional outcomes of CP in Singapore. It found that pre/perinatally acquired CP accounted for a majority of cases, with prematurity as the main risk factor. Optimisation of pre- and perinatal care to prevent and manage prematurity, together with early diagnosis and intervention, is important to reduce the incidence, severity and lifelong burden of CP in Singapore.
Original Article
Causes, functional outcomes and healthcare utilisation of people with cerebral palsy in Singapore
Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of permanent, but often changing, disorders that affect movement and posture, causing activity limitation, attributed to nonprogressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The birth prevalence of CP is estimated to be 1.4–2.2 per 1,000 in high-income countries. It...
Original Article
Cervical screening in foreign domestic workers in Singapore
Cervical cancer is the most common gynaecological cancer in many countries in Southeast Asia, with a cumulative age-standardised incidence rate (ASRI) of 17.2 per 100,000 and a corresponding mortality rate (ASMR) of 10 per 100,000. In Singapore, cervical cancer is the 10th most common cancer in women with an...
Editorial
World Cancer Day 2021: Remembering the ongoing cancer pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm, affecting millions of lives, plundering multiple economies and dramatically changing our way of life. During the same period, another ongoing pandemic continued to rage around the world, affecting 18,094,716 people and claiming 9,894,402 lives—far more deaths than COVID-19. This deadly...
Editorial
The Singapore Cerebral Palsy Registry: An important new resource for cerebral palsy research
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a common, lifelong disorder of movement and posture resulting from an insult or maldevelopment of the developing brain. The movement disorders of CP are often accompanied by other associated sensory and cognitive impairments. For the majority of children (about 95% in high income countries), the...
Original Article
Epidemiology and risk stratification of minor head injuries in school-going children
Head injuries are common childhood injuries that present to paediatric emergency departments. Falls are the most common cause in young children, while contact sports and road traffic injuries are common causes in school-going children. Majority of paediatric head injury cases are mild traumatic brain injuries, defined as a Glasgow...
