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Singapore’s healthcare system has evolved over the years, from its initial taxation-based governmental provision, to a community of restructured public providers, to a gradually morphing network of services, to the current somewhat complex ecology of organisations that includes public, private and “people” sectors providing different levels of health and social services.
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Ang, I.Y.H., Lewis, R.F., Yap, J.C.H. (2021). Singapore. In: Amelung, V., Stein, V., Suter, E., Goodwin, N., Nolte, E., Balicer, R. (eds) Handbook Integrated Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69262-9_56
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