Health and Health Policy in Singapore

This article examines how good health is achieved through the development of public policy on health care. It examines the attainment of health through a detailed analysis of mortality including death rates, life expectancy at birth, and cause and sex specific death rates and thereby the development of health care policy. The key findings are that Singapore has attained good health for all Singaporeans with the development of a comprehensive health care plan that focuses on individual stake-holding in health and keeping public health expenditure at a low level. The article also raises a few concerns such as unlikely high mortality level due to respiratory diseases and motor vehicle accidents as compared to other low mortality countries.