ReviewThe Lancet regional health. Western Pacific2025
Healthier SG: a gateway for evolving public-private-population partnerships in population health.
Review in The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Psychological Distress Among Primary Care Professionals in Singapore: Repeated-Measures Analyses of Two Independent Observation Windows (HADS and GHQ-12).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Addressing low-value care (LVC) in Asia: a narrative review of Choosing Wisely and other initiatives across Asia.BMJ open quality · 2026Review
- Variation in inpatient investigations and treatment practices for COPD exacerbations between respiratory and internal medicine specialties: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- From response-to-routine: embedding humanitarian supply evaluation in Singapore's health and community care systems.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Extending Healthier SG to Singapore's migrant workforce.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Article
- Operationalizing preventive care: the preventive health logistics ecosystem framework for aging societies.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Singapore's primary healthcare landscape is dominated by private sector general practitioners, who have more room to play in terms of safeguarding the health of the population. Through a transformative national policy, Healthier SG, Singapore is evolving its health system to lean on private-public partnerships. This is achieved through shared care protocols, interoperable IT requirements, new models of financing, shared responsibilities and human resources and, importantly, a bidirectional feedback channel. The Ministry of Health has attempted to address most of the pressing issues that prevent private sector general practitioners from enrolling into this newly implemented national primary care policy but continues to face unintended challenges. Disjointed and misplaced expectations between stakeholders, arduous administrative requirements that GPs need to perform to get their reimbursement, cherry-picking simpler patients to enrol as it makes more business sense and the prospect of continued care fragmentation are some of the loops that this national policy will need to jump through.
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