Traditional Chinese Medicine | Singapore's Health Care System

Singapore's healthcare system is largely based on modern medicine with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) playing a complementary role. WorldScientificSeriesonSingapore's50YearsofNation-BuildingSingapore'sHealthCareSystem,pp.351-362(2016) NoAccess14:TraditionalChineseMedicineHanSeongNgHanSeongNgHead(TCM)PrimaryandCommunityCareDivision,MinistryofHealth,Singapore.Registrar,TCMPractitionersBoard,Singapore. Searchformorepapersbythisauthor https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814696067_0028Citedby:0 PreviousNext AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAddtofavoritesDownloadCitationsTrackCitationsRecommendtoLibrary ShareShareonFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Abstract:Singapore'shealthcaresystemislargelybasedonmodernmedicinewithTraditionalChineseMedicine(TCM)playingacomplementaryrole.TreatmentmodalityinTCMincludesherbs,acupuncture,andTuina.Despitetheaccessibilityandadvancesinmodernmedicine,TCMispopularandwellacceptedbySingaporeans.AsurveyconductedbytheMinistryofHealth(MOH)in2004showedthat53%ofthepopulationhadconsultedaTCMpractitioner(TCMP)inthepreviousoneyear.Thefigurewas45%in1994.Morerecently,datacollectedfromtheNationalHealthSurvey2010inSingaporeshowedthat39.6%surveyedhadvisitedaTCMP,26.0%soughttreatmentforgeneralwell-being,25.8%foracuteminorinjuriessuchassprains,20.6%forchronicachesandpainlikeheadaches,backpainandrheumatism,and17.5%foracuteminorillness,forexample,thecoughandtheflu… FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Singapore'sHealthCareSystemMetrics Downloaded152times History PDFdownload CloseFigureViewerBrowseAllFiguresReturntoFigureChangezoomlevelZoominZoomoutPreviousFigureNextFigureCaption