Private Long-Term Care Insurance Ownership in a Simple Choice Environment: Does Financial Literacy Matter?

We present new evidence on financial literacy and private long-term care insurance (LTCI) ownership in Singapore, where policy intervention has resulted in a highly standardized marketplace with fixed benefit terms and premiums schedules. Using data from the 2018 Singapore Life Panel ( = 6,151), we document that almost half of the adults aged 50 and above in our large community-based sample have private LTCI coverage. We find that that financial literacy significantly increases LTCI demand, notwithstanding a simple choice environment where consumers cannot customize their policies.

How does parents' social support impact children's health practice? Examining a mediating role of health knowledge.

Background: Family environmental factors play a vital role in shaping children's health practices (e.g., obesity prevention).

Information trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst middle-aged and older adults in Singapore: A latent class analysis Approach.

Rationale: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy presents significant challenges for public health.

Objective: Vaccine hesitancy among middle-aged and older adults has been a significant barrier in Singapore's battle against COVID-19. We hypothesize that the trust middle-aged and older adults place in various sources of information influences vaccine hesitancy, and that distinct typologies of trust can be identified to better inform targeted health communication efforts.

The Associations between Poor Antibiotic and Antimicrobial Resistance Knowledge and Inappropriate Antibiotic Use in the General Population Are Modified by Age.

Objectives: Understanding factors influencing inappropriate antibiotic use can guide the design of interventions to improve antibiotic practices and reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Methods: A nationally representative cross-sectional survey (N = 2004) was conducted between November 2020 and January 2021. Knowledge of antibiotic use and AMR using the World Health Organization's Multi-Country AMR Survey questionnaire, and antibiotic practices were examined.

What Does Successful Aging Mean? Lay Perception of Successful Aging Among Elderly Singaporeans.

Objectives: We explore the culturally specific meaning of successful aging in Singapore, an ethnically diverse city-state in Asia. We aim to investigate lay perceptions of successful aging among the elderly individuals in Singapore and further examine variations of these perceptions.

Methods: We applied a mixed-method research design.

Validating a Scale of Health Beliefs in Preventive Health Screenings Among Chinese Older Adults.

We aimed to examine the psychometric properties of a modified 16-item Attitudinal Index (AI), a measure of Chinese older adults' beliefs about preventive health screenings. We used the 2013 Shanghai Elderly Life and Opinion data including 3,418 respondents age 60+ who were randomly split into training and validation samples. We examined the validity and reliability of the modified AI.

Disposable single-use receptacles in a tertiary hospital: A large survey of staff after a hospital-wide implementation.

In March 2014, our 1,100-bed tertiary hospital fully converted from a traditional system of reusable receptacles to a single-use disposable pulp receptacle system. Almost 12 months later, in February 2015, we undertook a large survey questionnaire to investigate user acceptance, perceptions, and any areas for improvement. The disposable pulp receptacle system was seen to be more convenient, more hygienic, and less of a risk in spreading infectious diseases.

Providing health care for older persons in Singapore.

Health care social policy in Singapore has passed the burden of care to the individual and the family on the rationale that it would enable the state to contain the costs of long-term care by channelling some of its funds to community services and to providing essential health services to all Singaporeans and not just the older group. While a wide array of services has come into existence, there is a lack of integration between the available resources and needs of the individual/family and what has been availed at the community and state levels. Part of the problem lies in the stringent criteria to which the state allows subsidies to be used; the lack of understanding with regard to the profile of users of services; and the case manager approach in offering services.

Food groups and the risk of colorectal carcinoma in an Asian population.

Background: Singapore Chinese have experienced a rapid transition toward a pattern of disease in which lifestyle-related, chronic, degenerative diseases are major public health concerns. The rates of colorectal carcinoma have increased 2-fold over the last 3 decades. It has long been known that dietary factors play a role in the risk of this disease, although studies in Asian populations, with their unique dietary intake, have been few.