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HEALTH
SERVICES RESEARCH
| Investigators: |
Prof
Lee Hin Peng |
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A/Prof
Lim Meng Kin |
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Dr
Luo Nan |
| Visiting
Fellow: |
Dr
Lim Yee Wei |
Faculty members continue to
participate in various regional and international consultations;
some members have joint appointments with the School of Medicine’s
Centre for Health Services Research, which has a collaborative
agreement with the US RAND Corporation. The Centre is in the process
of completing the 2 national-level projects, one on the Health
Scorecard and the other on Health Utilization Projections. A third
project on Mental Health has just been launched. Some of the work
done by the research fellows include cost-effectiveness and cost-utility
analyses of specific treatment regimes and quality of life (QoL)
measures in Parkinson’s disease, ophthalmic conditions, mental
health, orthopaedic care and cancer treatment. Work on methodological
issues includes use of health-related QoL instruments in clinical
trials and cohort studies. International projects include validation
of cross-cultural QoL instruments, and economic evaluations of
certain treatments.
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Dr
Luo Nan with research staff at Institute of Mental Health
(IMH) discussed the National Mental Health Evaluation Program |
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Recent Publications:
1. Nuruddin R, Lim MK, Hadden WC, Azam
I. Comparison of estimates of under-nutrition for pre-school
rural Pakistani children based on the WHO standard and the
National Center for Health Statistics NCHS reference. Public
Health Nutrition 2008;(27)1:1-7.
2.
Qian F and Lim MK. Professional satisfaction among Singapore
physicians. Health Policy 2008;(85)3:363-71.
3.
Nuruddin R, Lim MK, Hadden WC, Azam I. Maternal chronic ill
health negatively affects child survival in a poor rural population
of Pakistan. World Health Population 2007(9)3:27-35.
4.
Lim MK. Outpatient disease management programs for the chronically
ill. Health Policy Developments 2007;7/8:66-69.
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