Keeping disease at bay: Singapore.
The welfare state has arrived and is thriving in Singapore. Mark McCarthy, a senior lecturer in community medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, London, who visited the country recently, gives his impressions of the progress being made in health services, where the emphasis is on prevention.
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