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Health

Average Daily Polyclinic Attendances for Selected Diseases

Data from Jan 2012 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:38 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Average daily polyclinic attendances for selected diseases - Acute Upper Respiratory Tract infections, Acute Conjunctivitis, Acute Diarrhoea ,Chickenpox and HFMD (from 2018).

Each epidemiological week begins on a Sunday and ends on Saturday.

Chart (Acute Conjunctivitis)

Data explorer

AverageDailyPolyclinicAttendancesforSelectedDiseases.csv (2.6K rows, 82.6 KB)

Epi week Text	Disease Text	No. of Cases Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2012-W01	Acute Upper Respiratory Tract infections	2932
2012-W01	Acute Conjunctivitis	120
2012-W01	Acute Diarrhoea	491
2012-W01	Chickenpox	18
2012-W02	Acute Upper Respiratory Tract infections	3189
2012-W02	Acute Conjunctivitis	114
2012-W02	Acute Diarrhoea	575
2012-W02	Chickenpox	19
2012-W03	Acute Upper Respiratory Tract infections	3185
2012-W03	Acute Conjunctivitis	106

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Epi week	epi_week	Text	-	Each epidemiological week begins on a Sunday and ends on Saturday.
Disease	disease	Text	-	-
No. of Cases	no._of_cases	Numeric	No. of Cases	Average Daily Polyclinic Attendances

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5d5508f1c954f5630d7b3aa7875d01f9"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Health. (2016). Average Daily Polyclinic Attendances for Selected Diseases (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5d5508f1c954f5630d7b3aa7875d01f9/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

07 Oct 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)