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Printed with permission: Source: EIU Healthcare Report February 2010 Despite the relatively low level of spending on healthcare in Singapore, the island state’s health indicators are good Spending on healthcare in Singapore is relatively low as a percentage of GDP: at an estimated 4.1% in 2009, it is below the average of around 5.3% of [...]

Printed with permission. Source: EIU Healthcare Report November 2009 The standard of healthcare in Thailand is relatively high, but there are considerable regional disparities, as well as differences between public and private provision. As a percentage of GDP, healthcare spending in Thailand has remained at around 3.3% in recent years, below the estimated level in [...]

Printed with permission. Source EIU Healthcare Report December 2009 Despite the low ratio of health spending to GDP, Malaysia’s public healthcare system is lauded as an Asian success story The value of Malaysia’s healthcare industry is estimated at around US$8.4bn in 2009. Total expenditure on healthcare is estimated at the equivalent of 4.3% of GDP [...]

Printed with permission. Source: EIU Healthcare Report September 2009 The government must reconcile rising demand for healthcare with a desire for fiscal consolidation Healthcare spending per head in the Philippines is low, at only US$68 (at market exchange rates) in 2009, above the levels of US$60 in Indonesia and US$39 in Vietnam, but below those [...]

Printed with permission. Source: EIU Healthcare Report December 2009 Provision of healthcare in Vietnam is respectable in terms of health indicators such as life expectancy and infant mortality but the poor provision of health services in rural areas is reflected in the health equitability rankings from the WHO, which puts Vietnam 183 out of 194 [...]

Printed with permission. Source: EIU Healthcare Report September 2009 Indonesia remains one of the poorest countries in South-east Asia, and the quality of healthcare available is low and subject to considerable regional inequalities. Healthcare spending in Indonesia is low by regional standards, accounting for 2.7% of GDP in 2008, compared with 3.3% in Thailand and [...]

This is just BIZARRE on so many different levels….. 2-year-old boy smokes 40 cigarettes a day BEIJING, May 30 — Taking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, he looks like a parody of a middle-aged lorry driver. But the image covers up a much more disturbing [...]

The following general insights were provided by Ivy Teh when interviewed for a recent press release. 1. Is there a general way to characterize the difference between Asia-Pacific-style pricing and reimbursement policies as compared to US? Firstly, one must understand that the Asia Pacific region is a highly diverse one. There are countries ranging from [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of having lunch with Bloomberg’s Asia Health and Science correspondent, Simeon Bennett. He was kind enough to share with me a very interesting but alarming piece that he researched for Bloomberg back in May of 2009. It is a insightful article which exposes the seamy underbelly of pharmaceutical capitalism in [...]

I. INTRODUCTION This paper addresses Singapore’s law on Surrogacy in the context of the proposition, ‘the dictates of law and those of morality will often coincide, but law does not, and should not, exist to impose one particular code of morality.’ Section II, defines the law, morality, and their overlap. Section III, addresses the principled [...]