Handy Guide for Healthcare Professionals – Supporting Growth Mindset among Patients with Diabetes
IPUR has developed a handy guide for healthcare professionals. Informed by interviews with healthcare providers and patients with diabetes, the guide offers a toolbox of strategies that can be integrated into current clinical practice and transform patient-provider interactions. Healthcare providers play an influential role in how patients engage with their diabetes journey. They serve not […]
Risk Perception Gaps – Risk Perceptions and Experience of Harm in Singapore, South Korea and China
In the second Project Wavelength report employing survey data from Singapore, South Korea, and China, we looked at the perceptions of risks among the the three countries and how they compared against each other. Infectious diseases were a leading source of worry for respondents in all three countries, but beyond this shared concern, there were considerable […]
How-to-Guide on Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
IPUR developed a How-to-Guide to equip individuals with the right know-how on things they should know and do to reduce their carbon footprint. The guide serves as a simple yet informative document to support individuals in adapting their daily lifestyle habits to better align not only with Singapore’s Net Zero ambitions but globally as well. […]
A Handy Guide for Healthcare Providers
IPUR has developed a handy guide for healthcare professionals. Informed by interviews with healthcare providers and patients with diabetes, the guide offers a toolbox of strategies that can be integrated into current clinical practice and transform patient-provider interactions. Healthcare providers play an influential role in how patients engage with their diabetes journey. They serve not […]
Getting to Net Zero: Knowledge and Perceptions in Singapore
IPUR embarked on a study with the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE) and Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) to understand Singaporeans’ attitudes towards the nation’s Net Zero targets and its associated policies, as well as the actions they intend to take […]
Singapore 2023 Risk Barometer
The IPUR Singapore Risk Barometer Report is a flagship initiative to gain deeper insight into the risks that Singaporeans feel are the greatest concerns in their daily lives. It spotlights the needs, expectations and demands of society and serves as an annual scorecard on the management of these risks. The report aims to provide valuable […]
Risk Perception Gaps – Government risk communications in Singapore, South Korea and China
This report is the first in a series employing survey data from Singapore, South Korea, and China. Each report highlights a different dimension of public perceptions surrounding everyday risks, including: Whether risk information provided by public authorities is accessible, understandable and relevant to members of the public; Whether individuals see governments, private companies, the media […]
Disasters in Asia – The People’s Perspective
Millions of people in Asia are affected by multiple disasters every year and have limited time to recover from one calamity to the next. Drawing from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll, these research briefs frame the plight of people in Asia who face disruption from disaster-related events. The briefs analyse and discuss different […]
Climate risks and resilience
Dr Olivia Jensen, IPUR Lead Scientist (Environment and Climate) contributed an opinion piece to the Centre for Livable Cities’ playbook on “Building Community Resilience”. In the piece, titled “Empowering Communities to be Resilient with Information”, Dr Jensen speaks about communicating climate risks, the effectiveness of public risk management in Singapore and the resulting “caretaker effect” […]
The impact of risk perception on precautionary behaviours towards COVID-19 among health care workers and general population
Do healthcare professionals and the general public perceive risks differently? COVID-19 has had deep and profound impacts on the world with people’s lives altered not just by the ill physical effects of the disease but also by the economic, social and psychological effects of local and global disease control measures. Yet, there are varying degrees […]