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Chronic Disease Management Scheme

21 May 2007

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21 May 2007

Question No: 41

Question

Name of the Person: Associate Professor Kalyani K. Mehta, Nominated MP

To ask the Minister for Health (a) if he can provide a breakdown according to age, gender and ethnicity of Singapore residents and citizens suffering from (i) Diabetes type-1 and Diabetes type-2, (ii) Hypertension and (iii) stroke or post-stroke; and (b) if he can provide statistics on the total numbers who have applied under the Chronic Disease Management scheme for each of the above diseases since its launch last year.

Reply

Reply From MOH

We do not have precise figures and can only estimate the breakdown by age, gender and ethnicity of the Singapore citizens who suffer from diabetes, hypertension and stroke based on the latest national health survey in 2004. The estimates are summarised in Tables 1-3 below.

The Medisave for Chronic Disease Management Scheme was launched for diabetes in Oct 2006 and extended to hypertension, lipid disorder and stroke in Jan 2007. So far, 60,000 patients have benefited from the scheme. The statistics are summarised in Table 4 below.

Table 1. Estimated Number of Singaporeans with Diabetes, 2004

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Age Group	Total			Chinese			Malay			Indian
Age Group	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
Total	273,300	137,100	136,200	191,600	90,400	101,200	41,400	22,300	19,100	40,200	24,400	15,800

18-39	17,000	8,500	8,500	8,100	4,700	3,400	4,400	1,900	2,500	4,500	1,900	2,600
40-59	120,300	68,100	52,200	80,400	46,100	34,300	20,000	11,300	8,700	19,800	10,700	9,100
60 & above	136,000	60,500	75,500	103,100	39,600	63,500	17,000	9,100	7,900	15,900	11,800	4,100

Source: National Health Survey 2004

Table 2. Estimated Number of Singaporeans with Hypertension, 2004

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Age Group	Total			Chinese			Malay			Indian
Age Group	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
Total	613,700	344,800	268,900	507,800	287,000	220,800	67,500	35,200	32,300	38,400	22,600	15,800

18-39	74,000	57,600	16,400	55,700	43,500	12,200	10,400	7,700	2,700	7,900	6,400	1,500
40-59	287,800	171,600	116,200	237,100	146,700	90,400	32,400	14,900	17,500	18,300	10,000	8,300
60 & above	251,900	115,600	136,300	215,000	96,800	118,200	24,700	12,600	12,100	12,200	6,200	6,000

Source: National Health Survey 2004

Table 3. Estimated Number of Singaporeans with Stroke (self-reported)*, 2004

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Age Group	Total			Chinese			Malay			Indian
Age Group	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
Total	35,200	22,900	12,300	29,900	19,900	10,000	3,500	1,800	1,700	1,800	1,200	600

18-39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40-59	16,200	12,100	4,100	14,400	11,500	2,900	600	0	600	1,200	600	600
60 & above	19,000	10,800	8,200	15,500	8,400	7,100	2,900	1,800	1,100	600	600	0

Source: National Health Survey 2004

* Refers to survey respondents who answered 'Yes' to the question 'Have you ever been told by a doctor that you had a stroke?'

Table 4. Patients who have claimed from the Medisave for Chronic Disease Management Programme

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Disease Type	Number (up to end April 2007)
Diabetes*	47,035
Hypertension	11,635
Lipids disorder	1,020
Stroke	199
Total	59,889

* Patients who suffer from Diabetes and one or more of the other 3 diseases are classified as Diabetes patients.