IMPORTANCE OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN SINGAPORE
by Kenneth Kee 1991
A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science with a Major in Health Management and approved in 1991
ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION
Health care is divided into:
1.Primary Health Care (Government Outpatient Doctors, General Practitioners)
2.Secondary Health Care ( Specialist Doctors and Clinics)
3.Tertiary Health Care (Hospital Doctors and Institutional Clinics)
In the past, secondary and tertiary health care have always been the most important agenda in the Singapore Government Health Care Plan.
There has upgrading of specialist clinics and hospitals in Singapore.
In stark contrast the Primary Health Care sector has remained rather stagnant and even comparatively underdeveloped.
Perhaps this is because hospital and specialist health care carry a glamor about it unlike the Primary Health Care doctor who works in the community outsides the confines of the hospital setting.
It is therefore important that the Primary Health Care should be emphasized as the foundation of any good Health Care System.
Unlike the specialist and hospital medicine which represents only the tip of the iceberg of morbidity in a whole community, Primary Health Care covers the whole spectrum of undifferentiated illnesses with its continuing care and management of the whole person from infancy to death.
The WHO at the Alma Ata conference has adopted the objective of "Health For All" which is a rallying call to the international community to enable attainment by all the citizens of the world of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life.
"Primary Health Care address the main health problems in the community providing promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services accordingly.Since these services reflect and evolve from the economic conditions and social values of the country and community but will include at least:
promotion of proper nutrition and adequate supply of safe water,
basic sanitation,
maternal and child care including family planning,
immunization against the major infectious illnesses.
prevention and control of local endemic diseases,
education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them,
and appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries."
by Kenneth Kee 1991
A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science with a Major in Health Management and approved in 1991
ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION
Health care is divided into:
1.Primary Health Care (Government Outpatient Doctors, General Practitioners)
2.Secondary Health Care ( Specialist Doctors and Clinics)
3.Tertiary Health Care (Hospital Doctors and Institutional Clinics)
In the past, secondary and tertiary health care have always been the most important agenda in the Singapore Government Health Care Plan.
There has upgrading of specialist clinics and hospitals in Singapore.
In stark contrast the Primary Health Care sector has remained rather stagnant and even comparatively underdeveloped.
Perhaps this is because hospital and specialist health care carry a glamor about it unlike the Primary Health Care doctor who works in the community outsides the confines of the hospital setting.
It is therefore important that the Primary Health Care should be emphasized as the foundation of any good Health Care System.
Unlike the specialist and hospital medicine which represents only the tip of the iceberg of morbidity in a whole community, Primary Health Care covers the whole spectrum of undifferentiated illnesses with its continuing care and management of the whole person from infancy to death.
The WHO at the Alma Ata conference has adopted the objective of "Health For All" which is a rallying call to the international community to enable attainment by all the citizens of the world of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life.
"Primary Health Care address the main health problems in the community providing promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services accordingly.Since these services reflect and evolve from the economic conditions and social values of the country and community but will include at least:
promotion of proper nutrition and adequate supply of safe water,
basic sanitation,
maternal and child care including family planning,
immunization against the major infectious illnesses.
prevention and control of local endemic diseases,
education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them,
and appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries."
