To address the healthcare needs arising from aging population, the WHO recommends establishing comprehensive primary healthcare services in various regions. It emphasizes that the main strategies should operate on a preventive basis, through multidisciplinary collaboration and community participation, in order to enhance the health and wellbeing of overall citizens.  Since this, the Council publishes a new research brief called “Holistic Health – Research Brief on Primary Healthcare Service” in order to enrich practitioners with more knowledge of the holistic health and primary care service and promote social-medical collaboration.
 
Currently, different countries are launching medical and social collaboration schemes in order to strengthen primary care and alleviate the burden on existing healthcare system. This issue will introduce the social prescription programme and highlight the role of community hospital in using social-medical collaboration for supporting the discharge of the elderly. Should you feel interested into our research brief, please download as below: 

Research Brief: “Holistic Health – Primary Healthcare Service Research Brief 3: Social Prescription Programme in Singapore” (only Chinese version)

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