Combating SARS and H1N1: Insights and Lessons From Singapore’s Public Health Control Measures

Combating the outbreak of infectious diseases is a major public health imperative for the small island-state of Singapore. In this paper we discuss and assess the public health measures taken by the Singaporean government to combat the outbreak of SARS in 2003 and H1N1 in 2009. Most notably, the sta...

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Main Authors: Allen Yu-Hung Lai, Teck Boon Tan
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: SEAS - Society for South-East Asian Studies 2012-01-01
Series:ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
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Online Access:http://www.seas.at/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=118