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Health

Health Facilities (Dental Clinics and Pharmacies)

Data from Jan 2009 to Dec 2022Updated 7 months ago

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Health Facilities for Dental Clinics and Pharmacies (Total)

Number of facilities by Year

Data explorer

HealthFacilitiesDentalClinicsandPharmacies.csv (84 rows, 2.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Institution type Text	Sector Type Text	Number of facilities Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2009	Dental Clinics	Total	822
2009	Dental Clinics	Public	240
2009	Dental Clinics	Private	582
2009	Pharmacies	Total	211
2009	Pharmacies	Public	58
2009	Pharmacies	Private	153
2010	Dental Clinics	Total	850
2010	Dental Clinics	Public	240
2010	Dental Clinics	Private	610
2010	Pharmacies	Total	226

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Institution type	institution_type	Text	-	Year
Sector Type	sector	Text	-	Total, Public, Private
Number of facilities	no_of_facilities	Numeric	Number	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d4386b3130f3e5f7ccbbfc785602a606"
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. (2017). Health Facilities (Dental Clinics and Pharmacies) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d4386b3130f3e5f7ccbbfc785602a606/view

About this dataset

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Created on

13 Nov 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)

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