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Mental healthcare in Singapore

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Siow-Ann Chong
Siow-Ann Chong*
Affiliation:
Medical Board (Research) of the Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747, email [email protected]
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Singapore is a modern city state and the smallest nation (land area of 699 km2) in South East Asia. Its population of over 4 million is multiracial, with the Chinese (76.8%) constituting the majority of the population, followed by the Malays (13.9%) and the Indians (7.9%). The present health system is one that stresses individual responsibility, based on a system of compulsory medical saving accounts and on market mechanisms for the allocation of scarce healthcare resources. There are both public and private healthcare sectors. Since 1985, every public sector hospital has been ‘restructured’ — to grant some degree of autonomy in operational matters, with the intention of creating competition and financial discipline, although the government still retains 100% ownership of the hospitals.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 2007 , pp. 88 - 90
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