Center for Population Health Sciences - CePHaS

27/08/2021

Want to share your diabetes journey with us and help develop a useful mobile app for diabetes support and education?
Click on the link here: https://lkcmedicine.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a62eDRt0S7MmS58
This study is conducted by the Centre for Population Health Sciences from Lee Kong Chian, School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU-IRB reference no.: IRB-2020-04-010). Your contribution will help us build an app that is useful and meet the needs of people with type 2 diabetes and caregivers in Singapore.
If you have any questions, you may contact us via [email protected].
Thank you for your participation!

03/12/2020

How can health systems identify multiple-feature interventions aimed at enhancing primary care and their effects on measures of system success? Read on for our latest publication on multicomponent interventions:

Background Many countries have implemented interventions to enhance primary care to strengthen their health systems. These programmes vary widely in features included and their impact on outcomes. Aim To identify multiple-feature interventions aimed at enhancing primary care and their effects on mea...

29/10/2020

What do you know about diabetes? Want to learn more? Click on the link below to find out. The survey will take 10 to 30 minutes to complete. You will know how good your knowledge is.

Take the diabetes quiz here: http://bit.ly/lkcdiabetesquiz

It is for those 21 years or older.

This study is conducted by the Centre for Population Health Sciences from Lee Kong Chian, School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU-IRB reference no.: IRB-2020-04-011). Your responses will help us to understand how knowledge, attitudes and stress can affect diabetes management.

If you have any questions, you may contact us via [email protected].

Thank you for your participation!

08/09/2020

What do you know about diabetes? Want to learn more? Click on the link below to find out. The survey will take 10 to 30 minutes to complete. You will know how good your knowledge is.

Take the diabetes quiz here: http://bit.ly/lkcdiabetesquiz

It is for those 21 years or older.

This study is conducted by the Centre for Population Health Sciences from Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU-IRB reference no.: IRB-2020-04-011). Your responses will help us to understand how knowledge, attitudes and stress can affect diabetes management.

If you have any questions, you may contact us via [email protected].

Thank you for your participation!

15/06/2020

"We need to be aware that moving to phase two is not a signal that the danger of Covid-19 is over... Individual social responsibility will be paramount moving forward" says our director in an article in the Strait Times
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Experts say the situation looks quite promising, though people should not let their guard down.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

21/04/2020

“This is the likely future for the next 18 months minimum, this being the anticipated time to make a first vaccine available at scale.” Read what CePHaS Director Josip Car has had to say on growing developments of COVID-19 in the The New York Times!

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The spread suggests that it is unrealistic for the United States, Europe and the rest of the world to return to the way they were anytime soon, even if viral curves appear to flatten.

17/04/2020

Our director joining the fight against COVID-19!

Joining the fight to : Assoc Prof Josip Car has teamed up with researchers from National University of Singapore and University of Oxford to develop a guideline for remote consultation. With expected to be on the rise, primary care health workers can better manage suspected -19 patients. Examples of the published in medical journal The BMJ include how doctors should ask a patient to talk in full sentences to check on the respiratory function and to look out for the general demeanour of a patient over video. https://bit.ly/Covid19Guideline

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15/04/2020

COVID-19 is a rapidly evolving situation, so how can we start to get a hold of its patterns from an epidemiological perspective? Let CePHaS Director Dr Josip Car help you peel back the figures and statistics behind the virus in this highly informative series by NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine: https://youtu.be/fOjIAmo0Nhw

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Population health and health systems' response to COVID-19 by LKCMedicine Associate Professor of Health Services Outcomes Research Josip Car.

15/04/2020

"...the circuit breaker has already altered lifestyles, in the way people work and learn, and how they express themselves as social beings..." Read what CePHaS Director Dr Josip Car and other experts have had to say about Singapore's response to COVID-19!

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Experts say contact tracing may be lagging or community transmission has increased.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

15/04/2020

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and the Center for Population Health Sciences - CePHaS doing their part trying to fight COVID!

experts are fighting the pandemic on all fronts. See how they are leading the charge to in areas such as detecting and diagnosing the coronavirus, modelling infection patterns, making sense of the readers' consumption behaviour of COVID-19 news, coordinating outbreak research, looking at how telemedicine and digital health education can help alleviate the situation, creating clinical management guidelines and organising clinical response on the front line. https://bit.ly/NTUexperts

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25/03/2020

"Health systems worldwide are facing an increasing discrepancy between the number of health workers needed to provide health services, the availability of health professionals, and the capacity of countries to employ them."

Read more insights on strengthening our health workforce in our latest report, "Digital Education for Building Health Workforce Capacity", commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), out now:

https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331524

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03/02/2020

When simple forgetfulness has serious consequences in diabetes management, digital apps can step in to play a big role. See what our study of 181 diabetes management apps turned up with regards to medication reminders -
https://bit.ly/393KP0M

Congrats authors: Geronimo Jimenez , Elaine Lum, Zhilian Huang ,Yin Leng Theng, Bernard Boehm and Josip Car!

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Medication adherence is important for glycaemic control. However, less than half of those with Type 2 diabetes take medications as prescribed. One of the known barriers to medication adherence is for...