TASK 3 – Determinants of health and trends
Singapore is a high income, developed country in the World Health Organisation (WHO) Western Pacific region. Residents in Singapore generally have good health with high life expectancy and low mortality rates. This has resulted in an ageing population with increasing chronic health issues.
Write a 500 word referenced essay which answers the question what are the key health issues facing Singapore, currently and in the future?
Start from the Singapore Health Promotion Board website http://www.hpb.gov.sg/ and then locate and use at least 5 other sources of data and information to provide referenced support for your essay.
Remember all essays should include:
- An Introduction that states how you are going to answer the question/task set and give so specific examples of areas to be covered
- A Main Body that addresses the task/essay question with references citation using Harvard citation method
- A Conclusion that draws out the key points from the essay and indicates the implication for future practice (this might be for you as a practitioner or the service/policy more generally)
SAMPLE
Task 3: Determinants of health and trends
Singapore is one of the fastest ageing populations in the world and with the increased life expectancy from 72 years to 82 years, on top of the low birth rates, Singapore is facing the prospect of a shrinking and ageing citizen population and workforce. Singapore Health Minister Mr Gan Kim Yong had identified three key health areas that Singapore are facing currently, which includes infrastructure, cost and ageing policies (Pang, 2011).
With the increase elderly, the affordability of healthcare is the main issues. Therefore, Ministry of Health (MOH) are focusing on areas that can help Singaporeans. Aids from MOH such as helping Singaporeans who has lower income, the sandwiched class and the elderly with better afford healthcare costs through more Government subsidies. MOH has done the following to help Singaporeans with healthcare; increasing government’s share of healthcare spending to help more Singaporeans better afford their healthcare costs, enabling Singaporeans to have a greater peace of mind that they will be able to afford healthcare when they need by exploring and enhancing the risk pooling to develop a more comprehensive MediShield and review the flexibility of Medisave use. Working with healthcare providers to manage costs and ensure that healthcare remains affordable and sustainable, encouraging Singaporeans to live a healthy lifestyle (MOH, 2013).
Health promotion board (HPB) had identified some chronic diseases that are generally progressive and that affect Singaporeans such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes mellitus, hypertension, lipid disorders and stroke.
In TODAY’s newspaper website, The Republic’s newest medical school, Nanyang Technological University’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine unveiled its research strategy which aim to tackle Singapore’s key health challenges in order to serve its population future needs. The research will be led by top scientific minds and cover four areas that are relevant to the nation’s ageing population and modern lifestyle which includes metabolic diseases, infectious diseases, neuroscience and mental health as well as dermatology and skin biology (TODAY, 2015).
In the recent Science Conference speech that were made by Minister of Health Mr Gan Kim Yong, he hope that Singapore is a nation for all ages. As a fast ageing population, providing a workplace for all ages, health for all ages and a city for all ages is important (MOH, 2015). If we are able to do the above mentioned, Singapore will have a much higher chance of achieving successful ageing, a better chance at productive longevity if employers do not have negative view about seniors and if the young and society as a whole do not hold a pessimistic and deterministic view of ageing.
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