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Health care for older persons in Singapore
— integrating state and community provisions with individual support | | Author(s) | Peggy Teo |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 16, no 1, 2004 |
| Pages | pp 43-68 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Health services ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Singapore. |
| Annotation | Health care policy in Singapore is similar to that in the United States and the United Kingdom, where a residualist strategy is used to pass health care costs to individuals and their families, the rationale being that this enables the state to concentrate on devolution of care to the community and ensure efficient and affordable service to all Singaporeans. The services include public restructured hospitals and outpatient polyclinics, as well as community services such as community hospitals, nursing homes, day care centres and home help services. Availability does not translate into optimum usage, because current and potential users and their families are not able to match their financial and social resources with the services. Instead, the state acts as the case manager and places parameters on what individuals can access. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040610203 A |
| Classmark | L: QK6: 7XD |
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