Affiliation:
1. KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore
Abstract
The global burden of non-communicable diseases is rising, with continued projected increases in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in the future. This epidemic, albeit of a metabolic nature, poses broad socioeconomic and healthcare burdens worldwide. Population health improvement and optimisation of healthcare are important to addressing these burdens. Modelling health systems to be more health-centric—in addition to being disease-centric—is key, focusing on preventive care initiatives, which avert the development of metabolic diseases in the community at large.
Publisher
Academy of Medicine, Singapore