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"Asian -values" discourse and the resurrection of the social

1999

Chua, Beng Huat

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Chua, Beng Huat
Title	"Asian -values" discourse and the resurrection of the social
Source Title	Positions: East Asia cultures critique
Publication Date	1999
DOI	http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/129441
Page	573-592
Language	English
Content Type	Journal Article
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries

"Triumph over adversity": Singapore mobilizes Confucian values to combat SARS

2009

Weber, Ian
Tan, Howe Yang
Law, Loo Shien

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Weber, Ian Tan, Howe Yang Law, Loo Shien
Editor	Powers, John H. Xiao, Xiaosui
Title	"Triumph over adversity": Singapore mobilizes Confucian values to combat SARS
Source Title	The social construction of SARS: studies of a health communication crisis
Publication Date	2009
Publisher	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins
Call Number	RA644 Sar.So 2008
Subject	SARS (Disease) -- Singapore Communication in public health -- Singapore National characteristics, Singaporean
Page	145-162
Language	English
Content Type	Book Chapter
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries

A macro perspective on health insurance in Singapore

1997

Lawrence, Brian

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Lawrence, Brian
Editor	Tan, Teck Meng Chew, Soon Beng
Title	A macro perspective on health insurance in Singapore
Source Title	Affordable health care: issues and prospects
Publication Date	1997
Publisher	Singapore : Prentice Hall
Call Number	RA410 Aff
Subject	Health insurance -- Singapore
Page	233-244
Language	English
Content Type	Book Chapter
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries

Competition and control in public hospital reforms in Hong Kong and Singapore

2009

Ramesh, M.

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Ramesh, M.
Editor	Mok, Ka Ho Forrest, Ray
Title	Competition and control in public hospital reforms in Hong Kong and Singapore
Source Title	Changing governance and public policy in East Asia
Publication Date	2009
Publisher	London : Routledge
DOI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203888216
Call Number	HN720.5 Cha 2009
Subject	Public hospitals -- Singapore Public health -- Singapore Medical care -- Singapore
Page	99-116
Language	English
Content Type	Book Chapter
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries

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Development of social work in health care in Singapore

2021

Goh, Soon Noi

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Goh, Soon Noi
Editor	Lee, Geok Ling Goh, Soon Noi
Title	Development of social work in health care in Singapore
Source Title	Medical social work in Singapore: context and practice
Publication Date	2021
Publisher	Singapore: World Scientific
DOI	https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789811227493_0001
Subject	Medical social work -- Singapore -- History Medical social work -- Singapore Medical care -- Singapore -- History Medical care -- Singapore
Page	3-26
Language	English
Content Type	Book Chapter
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	restrictedAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Abstract	The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the development of social work in health care and to situate the development within the transformation of healthcare in Singapore. This chapter presents the emer-gence and evolution of medical social work within the backdrop of chang-ing health and social contexts, service organisation and provision in Singapore, and discusses how certain events have shaped medical social work as a profession.

Discursively globalized: Singapore and food safety

2019

Tarulevicz, Nicole

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Tarulevicz, Nicole
Title	Discursively globalized: Singapore and food safety
Source Title	Food, Culture & Society
Publication Date	2019
DOI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2019.1682890
Subject	Food law and legislation -- Singapore -- History Food -- Singapore -- Safety measures -- History Food adulteration and inspection -- Singapore -- History Botulism -- Singapore -- History Saccharin -- Singapore -- History
Page	193-208
Language	English
Content Type	Journal Article
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Volume	23
Issue	2
Description	Food safety knowledge is created, validated, disseminated, and acted upon. It is conflicted, contextual, and contingent. The technology has a history, the knowledge has a history, and how everyday people interact with food safety ideas has a history. Taking three historical examples from Singapore – pure food advertising; anxiety about botulism; and the prohibition of saccharin – this paper suggests that food safety helps us reposition food and globalization. Singapore was, and still is, a step in a long supply chain of comestibles that pass into and through the port, in which the identity and location of the producers is obscured by distance, value adding, and the complexities of global trade.

Does ethnicity matter in risk and protective factors for suicide attempts and suicide lethality?

2017

Choo, Carol C.
Harris, Keith M.
Chew, Peter K .H.
Ho, Roger C.

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Choo, Carol C. Harris, Keith M. Chew, Peter K .H. Ho, Roger C.
Title	Does ethnicity matter in risk and protective factors for suicide attempts and suicide lethality?
Source Title	Plos One
Publication Date	2017
DOI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/10.1371/journal.pone.0175752
Subject	Suicide -- Singapore Suicidal behavior -- Singapore East Indians -- Suicidal behavior -- Singapore Chinese -- Suicidal behavior -- Singapore Malays (Asian people) -- Suicidal behavior -- Singapore
Page	e0175752
Language	English
Content Type	Journal Article
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Volume	12
Issue	4
Description	This study explored ethnic differences in risk and protective factors for suicide attempts, for the major ethnic groups in Singapore, and ethnic differences in prediction of lethality. Three years of medical records related to suicide attempters (N = 666) who were admitted to the emergency department of a large teaching hospital in Singapore were subjected to analysis. Of the sample, 69.2% were female, 30.8% male; 63.8% Chinese, 15.8% Indian, and 15.0% Malay. Indians were over-represented in this sample, as compared with the ethnic distribution in the general population. Ages ranged from 10 to 85 years old (M = 29.7, SD = 16.1). Ethnic differences were found in risk and protective factors, and perceived lethality of suicide attempts. All available variables were subjected to regression analyses for Chinese, Indian and Malay attempters to arrive at parsimonious models for prediction of perceived lethality. The findings were discussed in regards to implications in assessment of suicide risk and primary prevention for the multiethnic society in Singapore.

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Geriatric social work

2021

Goh, Soon Noi
Seng, Yuh Jen

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Goh, Soon Noi Seng, Yuh Jen
Editor	Lee, Geok Ling Goh, Soon Noi
Title	Geriatric social work
Source Title	Medical social work in Singapore: context and practice
Publication Date	2021
Publisher	Singapore: World Scientific
DOI	https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789811227493_0008
Subject	Geriatrics -- Singapore Medical social work -- Singapore Social work with older people -- Singapore
Page	147-167
Language	English
Content Type	Book Chapter
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	restrictedAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Abstract	This chapter provides a brief overview of the Singapore elderly and the impact of disease on the elderly and their families such as the physical, social, and psychological impact, and the ways to prevent, intervene, and minimise the impact. A comprehensive assessment framework that a MSW uses will be discussed.

He saved thousands: the story of Dr JMJ Supramaniam

2019

Naleeza Ebrahim
Supramaniam, Paul

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Naleeza Ebrahim Supramaniam, Paul
Title	He saved thousands: the story of Dr JMJ Supramaniam
Publication Date	2019
Publisher	Singapore: Armour Publishing
Call Number	R612.S87 Nal 2019
Subject	Supramaniam, James M. J. Hospitals -- Medical staff -- Singapore -- Biography Hospital administrators -- Singapore -- Biography Physicians -- Singapore -- Biography Medicine -- Research -- Singapore
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Description	He lost his mother when he was two and his father when he was 15. His leg was injured during the Japanese bombardment of Singapore and doctors almost amputated it. His medical studies were halted when the Japanese ruled Singapore. Despite such daunting circumstances, Dr James Mark Jeyasebasingam Supramaniam (popularly known as Dr JMJ) prevailed to emerge at the forefront of Singapore’s medical service during its nation-building phase. On the world stage, global medical annals credit him for the discovery of the cure for tuberculosis. This book traces the inspiring life of Dr JMJ within the larger context of the evolution of Singapore, from the 1800s when his older family members arrived on its shores, to the creation of the Singaporean nation during the 1950s and 1960s, in which JMJ played a pivotal part.

Loving hearts, beautiful minds: Woodbridge Hospital celebrating 75 years

2003

Institute of Mental Health/Woodbridge Hospital (Singapore)

Collection	Public Health & Healthcare
Author/Creator	Institute of Mental Health/Woodbridge Hospital (Singapore)
Title	Loving hearts, beautiful minds: Woodbridge Hospital celebrating 75 years
Publication Date	2003
Publisher	Singapore : Singapore
Call Number	RC451.12 Ins 2003
Subject	Woodbridge Hospital (Singapore) -- History Institute of Mental Health/Woodbridge Hospital (Singapore) -- History Psychiatric hospitals -- Singapore. -- History
Page	83
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries