Associate Professor Norbert Wagner is an occupational health physician who has spent most of the last twenty years setting up training programmes in different countries to build capacity in prevention at the workplace. Norbert also works as a specialist and consultant in occupational health for governments and companies. Yesterday was World Day for Safety and HealthRead more
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Celebrated in the last week of April (24–30 April), the World Health Organization (WHO) World Immunization Week aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease, and raise awareness of the importance of full immunisation throughout life. This year’s theme is Protected Together: Vaccines Work. The campaign celebrates Vaccine
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World #Malaria Day is commemorated every 25 April and recognises global efforts to control malaria. Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite that is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes and often leads to a flu-like illness with fever. If left untreated, it may develop severe life-threatening complications. In 2017, there were 219 million malaria cases and 435,000 malaria deaths
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Ageing workers offer more experience, but also potentially more health problems. This new generation of older workers want to remain engaged and productive, yet they are the ones among whom we see higher chronic disease prevalence than previous generations. How do we manage these competing ideologies on ageing? Dr Jeff Hwang shares that companies should
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Singapore adopts a harm restriction approach in its tobacco control, including limiting the places where one can smoke, taxation, advertising bans, and more recently, raising the minimum legal age for smoking and introducing standardised packaging of tobacco products. While these measures reduced smoking rates 50–60 years ago, the proportion of smokers has remained stagnant in
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Singapore aims to become one of the top countries with the safest and healthiest workplaces by 2028. Workplace fatal injury rates here have fallen from 4.9 per 100,000 in 2004 to 1.2 in 2017 and 2018, the lowest ever recorded. The target now is to reduce this further to below 1.0 per 100,000 workers by
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The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical field is an emerging topic of interest, but it is already in practice in China where the use of AI on the medical frontline has reduced the burden on overworked doctors, in turn improving diagnostic efficiency and allowing for more time spent with patients. The technology
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#WorldHealthDay falls on 7 April and its main theme is Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the number one goal for the World Health Organization (WHO). Today we talk to Adjunct Associate Professor Jeremy Lim, who has an in-depth knowledge of the Singapore healthcare model and gives us his reflections.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 leading causes of death worldwide and remains an epidemic in most countries, including Singapore. To commemorate World TB Day on 24 March, Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang, Programme Leader (Infectious Diseases), and Dr Loh Kah Seng, Director of Chronicles Research & Education, shared about the current state
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious bacterial infection which is spread through inhaling tiny droplets from the coughs or sneezes of an infected person. TB mainly affects the lungs, and is treated with antibiotics. Each year, World Tuberculosis Day falls on 24 March, the date in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered
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