SINGAPORE - All Singaporean households will receive another $100 worth of Community Development Council (CDC) vouchers this month. The vouchers, which can already be collected, can be used at more than 16,000 participating heartland merchants and hawkers. The current round of vouchers comes less than five months after last year's vouchers were rolled out in December. Finance Minister Lawrence Wong.
Singapore News - All Singaporean households will receive another $100 worth of Community Development Council (CDC) vouchers this month. The vouchers, which can already. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Singapore News - All Singaporean households can now collect $100 worth of vouchers that they can spend at about 10,000 participating hawkers and heartland merchants. The community development council (CDC) vouchers, worth $130 million in total and given out to 1.3 million households, are. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Background: Cancer has become the leading cause of mortality in Singapore and among other Asian populations worldwide. Despite the presence of National Cancer Screening programmes in Singapore, less than half of the population has had timely screening according to guidelines. The underlying factors of poor cancer screening rates and health outcomes among Asian ethnic groups remain poorly understood. We therefore examined cancer screening participation rates and screening behaviour in a multi-ethnic Singapore population. Methods: We collected data from 7,125 respondents of the 2015-2016 Singapore Community Health Study. Factors associated with cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening were evaluated using modified Poisson regression. Adjusted prevalence ratios were computed with 95% confidence intervals after adjusting for confounders. Results: The respondents’ mean age was 57.7±10.9 years, 58.9% were female and were predominately Chinese (73.0%), followed by Malay (14.2%