Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in Singapore
Summary: Population health encompasses health outcomes, their determinants, and the distribution within the group of individuals. A life course approach, involving residents regardless of health status and disease complexity, and addressing their needs holistically and contextually is a key policy f...
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| author | Ken Wah Teo Lian Leng Low Wee Hoe Gan Luke Sher Guan Low Chien Earn Lee |
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| description | Summary: Population health encompasses health outcomes, their determinants, and the distribution within the group of individuals. A life course approach, involving residents regardless of health status and disease complexity, and addressing their needs holistically and contextually is a key policy for improving population health. Healthier SG represents Singapore’s transformation towards population health. Under this initiative, Singapore’s three healthcare clusters have been tasked with new roles as population health managers and regional health managers, on top of being healthcare service providers. We propose that beyond intermediate and post-acute care, community hospitals, as service providers, have an opportunity to (a) innovate new models of integrated and appropriate care, (b) adopt life-course approaches which include prevention and end-of-life care extended to community settings, (c) strengthen person-centred and holistic care approaches through social prescribing, (d) lead capability building and sector development for person-centred care, and (e) galvanize the health-social care ecosystem. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3f959993bf964e14a5fc6ababcc426ea2025-01-24T04:45:47ZengElsevierThe Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific2666-60652025-02-0155101477Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in SingaporeKen Wah Teo0Lian Leng Low1Wee Hoe Gan2Luke Sher Guan Low3Chien Earn Lee4Division of Population Health and Integrated Care, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore; Integrated General Hospital, MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation, Singapore; Corresponding author. Associate Consultant in Public Health, Division of Population Health and Integrated Care, Singapore General Hospital, 10 Hospital Boulevard, 168582, Singapore.Division of Population Health and Integrated Care, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore; Outram Community Hospital, SingHealth Community Hospitals, Singapore; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore; SingHealth Community Hospitals, Singapore Health Services, SingaporeDuke-NUS Medical School, Singapore; SingHealth Community Hospitals, Singapore Health Services, SingaporeSingHealth Community Hospitals, Singapore Health Services, SingaporeSingHealth Office of Regional Health, Singapore Health Services, SingaporeSummary: Population health encompasses health outcomes, their determinants, and the distribution within the group of individuals. A life course approach, involving residents regardless of health status and disease complexity, and addressing their needs holistically and contextually is a key policy for improving population health. Healthier SG represents Singapore’s transformation towards population health. Under this initiative, Singapore’s three healthcare clusters have been tasked with new roles as population health managers and regional health managers, on top of being healthcare service providers. We propose that beyond intermediate and post-acute care, community hospitals, as service providers, have an opportunity to (a) innovate new models of integrated and appropriate care, (b) adopt life-course approaches which include prevention and end-of-life care extended to community settings, (c) strengthen person-centred and holistic care approaches through social prescribing, (d) lead capability building and sector development for person-centred care, and (e) galvanize the health-social care ecosystem.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666606525000148Community hospitalPopulation healthPerson-centred careLife courseHealthier SG |
| spellingShingle | Ken Wah Teo Lian Leng Low Wee Hoe Gan Luke Sher Guan Low Chien Earn Lee Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in Singapore The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific Community hospital Population health Person-centred care Life course Healthier SG |
| title | Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in Singapore |
| title_full | Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in Singapore |
| title_fullStr | Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in Singapore |
| title_full_unstemmed | Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in Singapore |
| title_short | Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in Singapore |
| title_sort | expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in singapore |
| topic | Community hospital Population health Person-centred care Life course Healthier SG |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666606525000148 |
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