Immobility and Pandemic: Examining Diseasescape in the Post-COVID Era
COVID-19, diseasescape, public and international affairsStudying global cases of immobility governance strategies in different stages of the pandemic, Dr CHAN Yuk-wah of CityU's Department of Public and International Affairs has published a research article with her research partner on examining how the COVID-inflected diseasescape has impacted the dynamic between mobility and immobility, and how the diseasescape continued to evolve with the disease and the policies.
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Political Unfriending: A Comparative Study of Selective Avoidance on Social Media in Western Democracies
Media and Communication, Political Unfriending, Social MediaWhen people encounter dissonant speech on social media, functions such as hiding comments, unfriending and unfollowing friends may reinforce the behaviour of selective avoidance in order to re-establish more homophilous environments online. Dr Marko SKORIC of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication conducted a comparative study with his team on the selective avoidance behaviour of social media users in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Are People Who Perceive Themselves Good Looking More Prone to Behave Selfishly?
beauty, Psychology, social and behavioural sciencesDr WANG Xijing of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences and her research team launched a series of five studies to identify whether physical attractiveness can predict self-interested behaviours and the mechanism behind it.
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A Journey of Hope: Impact of Hope-based Research 希望之旅：「希望為本」研究之影響
Community Impact, Impact Cases, Positive Psychology, Psychology, social and behavioural sciences, video(Video in English only with bilingual subtitles) People often feel helpless and depressed when facing life-altering situations such as a terminal diagnosis, incarceration and even a global pandemic. While many clinical psychologists mainly provide their patients with symptom treatments that focuses on “now”, Prof Samuel HO Mun-yin, Head of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, has dedicated over two decades to his hope-based treatments that focus on the future. Prof Ho has established Chinese Hope Scales to measure the cognitive style of hope; these instruments have been widely adopted by practitioners in hospitals and NGOs. Based on his research findings, Prof Ho has developed five hope storybooks and two treatment manuals for hope-based interventions, and was involved in the development of a gender-responsive treatment facility in the largest women’s prison in Hong Kong. His work has also gained recognition overseas these years. He was invited to provide training and consultation to over 400 clinicians in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and the UK.
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CLASS Survey Reveals Citizens’ Preference to End Hotel Quarantine
COVID-19, Media and Communication, QuarantineProfessor Christine HUANG Yi-hui, Chair Professor of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication, conducted a survey along with her research team in August 2022, asking 1,042 local citizens aged above 20, about their opinions on the existing “3+4” quarantine policy.
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Language Ideologies of International Students in a Hong Kong EMI University
EMI, English Language, International StudentTo dissect the language-related experiences and beliefs of international students, Dr Matthew SUNG of CityU’s Department of English launched a research project at an EMI university in Hong Kong. From the perspectives of language policy and critical sociolinguistics, he zoomed in on their ideologies about the roles, the varieties, and the monolingual and multilingual uses of English in the EMI university context.
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Pinpointing Adaptive Communication and Perceptions in Long-distance Relationships
Adaptive communication, Digital Society, Long-distance RelationshipNot only do the long-distance couples tune into the communication issue, but many researchers also knuckle down to examine the contextual implications. Dr Crystal JIANG Li of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication presented a research report on adaptive communication and perceptions in long-distance dating.
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Ghost Marriage and Corpse Trading Crime in Rural China
Criminology, Ghost Bride, Smart CityProfessor LO Tit-wing of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences led a research project to go beyond social culture and folklore to investigate the criminal business processes in this emerging economic market. He studies the nature and substance of ghost bride-induced crime while looking into the criminal business processes of ghost bride-induced crimes from an economic perspective.
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First Ever Online Racial Discrimination Study in Hong Kong
Digital Society, Racial Discrimination, Social MediaFunded by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), Dr WANG Yuan of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication led a research project titled “A Study of Online Media Representation of Ethnic Minorities and Online Racial Discrimination in Hong Kong.” It analysed how online news articles and their reader comments portray ethnic minority groups in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic and whether this portrayal involves racial bias, stereotypes, or discrimination.
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Quality Trilingual Caretaker Input Facilitates Early Trilingual Development
Caretaker, Language input, TrilingualThe vision and language education policy of the HKSAR Government is to nurture children to be biliterate and trilingual. Dr Maggie MAI Ziyin of CityU's Department of Linguistics and Translation conducted a longitudinal case study tracking the caretaker input and the trilingual development of a male child in Hong Kong named Leo for 18 months from 1.5 to 3 years old.
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Job Satisfaction Effect on Citizen Satisfaction: A Study of the Satisfaction Mirror in the Public Sector
Public administration, Satisfaction Mirror, Smart CityDr Nick PETROVSKY of CityU’s Department of Public and International Affairs published a research article with Ge XIN and Jinhai YU to examine the connection between job satisfaction and individual citizens’ satisfaction with the village officials’ work, supporting the “satisfaction mirror” hypothesis.
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Enhancing Social Capital for Healthy Ageing by Timebanking System
Ageing population, One Health, Social capitalDr Tracy LU Shiyu of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences recently published a research article “Promoting social capital for healthy ageing: Towards an integrative framework” in The Gerontologist, suggesting an integrated theoretical framework to enhance social capital for healthy ageing.
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Pandemic Fatigue? CityU’s Survey Reveals Half of the Citizens Support “Living-with-COVID”
COVID-19, One Health, Pandemic fatigueProfessor Christine HUANG Yi-hui, Chair Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, led a local survey together with Dr Crystal JIANG Li, Dr Vincent WANG Xiaohui and Dr Nancy DAI Yue. Survey results showed that the majority of the respondents supported the “Live-with-COVID” policy, but there were different stances on COVID policies depending on personal backgrounds.
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Investigating Digital Divide and Mobile Health in Asian Countries
Digital divide, Digital Society, Public healthIn light of the “digital divide" phenomenon, Dr WANG Xiaohui of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication has designed a study to investigate the factors contributing to mobile health information seeking (MHIS) to profile such information seekers in Asia using data from 10 Asian countries.
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A Case Study in Shanghai: Reflecting on State Retreat Strategies in Mainland China’s Urban (Re)Development
Shanghai, Smart City, Urban DevelopmentFrom the case study of a village located in suburban Shanghai, Dr ZHU Jin of the Department of Public and International Affairs presents a contradicting finding and illustrates how the landlord-tenant power relationship has been reshuffled in Mainland China’s new governance context.
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Parent-adolescent Conflict and Adolescent Suicidal Ideation Research Offers Valuable Implications
Adolescent suicide, One Health, Parent-childDr Andrew LOW Yiu-tsang of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences has conducted a cross-sectional survey, studying the relationship between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent suicidal ideation in Hong Kong, and the potential mediating effects of depression and anxiety on this relationship.
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Investigating Citizens’ Willingness to Have Booster Shot and Use Contact-Tracing App
COVID-19, One Health, VaccinationA survey on their willingness to receive a booster shot and use a contact-tracing app was conducted by a research team led by Professor Christine Huang Yi-hui, Associate Dean (Faculty Development) of CityU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Chair Professor in the Department of Media and Communication.
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Exploring Victim-offender Overlap in Sexual Offending Among Asian Population
Criminology, Sexual abuse, Victim-offender overlapDr Oliver CHAN Heng-choon of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences conducted an empirical study in Hong Kong, hypothesising that sexual offending victimisation is associated with subsequent sexual offending perpetration, and vice versa, irrespective of the type of sexual offending behaviour.
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Understanding Citizens’ Attitudes on Vaccine Hesitancy Across Six Regions
COVID-19, One Health, VaccinationCLASS collaborated with the Centre for Public Affairs and Law to examine residents from six regions about their attitudes towards vaccination, anti-pandemic measures, and information fatigue. The study was led by Dr Edmund CHENG from the Department of Public and International Affairs and Dr LIN Fen from the Department of Media and Communication.
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Privacy Concerns in the Context of Online Political Participation
Cybersecurity, Digital Society, Political ParticipationDr Chris SHEN Fei and his doctoral student at CityU’s Department of Media and Communication have conducted a research study across 10 Asian cities. The findings are presented in the article The relationship between online political participation and privacy protection: evidence from 10 Asian societies of different levels of cybersecurity, published in Behaviour and Information Technology.
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Examine Illegal Wildlife Trading from Social Science Perspectives
Criminology, Smart City, Wildlife TradingDr Rebecca WONG Wing-yee of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, whose research interests lie in green criminology and illegal endangered wildlife trade, has recently published peer-reviewed articles discussing wildlife trade and poaching of protected species in mainland China.
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Examining the Link between Tropical Cyclones and Local Economy
Smart City, Typhoon SignalDr ZHANG Lin of CityU's Department of Public and International Affairs and his collaborator unravelled the effects of tropical cyclones on economic growth. The research looked into the economic impact of tropical cyclone events between 1980 and 2018, focusing on the overall economic growth and sectoral variations.
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Language and Discourse in COVID-19 Response: The New Zealand Case
COVID-19, Health Communication, One HealthGiven New Zealand has so far been regarded as successful in fighting the pandemic, Dr Christoph HAFNER of CityU’s Department of English investigates whether (and how) the NZ government’s communication practices have played a role throughout the process.
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Investigating the Language Abilities and Attitudes on Ethnic Minority Students
ethnic minority, LinguisticsDr LI Bin of CityU’s Department of Linguistics and Translation conducted a survey on ethnic minority students in Hong Kong to examine their proficiency levels and attitudes of the main languages in use.
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Seeking Justice on the Web: How News Media and Social Norms Drive the Practice of Cyber Vigilantism
Cyber Vigilantism, Cyberbullying, Digital Society, New MediaDr Stella CHIA of CityU’s Department of Media and Communication has conducted a research study to investigate whether people’s evaluations and reactions to crowdsourced vigilantism are subject to media and social influences.
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Understanding Political Polarisation in the New Media Age
Big Data, Digital Society, New Media, Public OpinionThe distribution of public opinion signals social preferences. People make many decisions in their daily lives based on their perception of the opinion climate. Similarly, policymakers formulate policy proposals based on their understanding of public opinion. With digital and social media becoming an integral part of people’s daily lives for information and communication, the proliferation of digital technologies is changing not only how public opinion can be represented, but also how it can be studied. By adopting a big data-based approach, Dr Chris SHEN Fei, Department of Media and Communication, specialising in the social and political impact of new media technologies, has proposed ways of understanding public opinion through online textual mining.
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Background and trust in government affect citizens’ willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19, One Health, VaccinationA research team led by Professor Christine HUANG Yihui, Chair Professor of Communication and Media, conducted a poll to find out citizens’ willingness to get vaccinated and any correlation between their tendencies and backgrounds.
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Investigating Hong Kong Nurses’ Intention to Take Vaccines
COVID-19, One Health, VaccinationDr Ben LI Kin-kit and his collaborators conducted a study to investigate Hong Kong nurses’ influenza vaccine uptake rate, their intention to have COVID-19 vaccine and the psychological underpinnings of their vaccine hesitancy.
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New Methodology for Assessing Spatial Inequality Quantitatively
Smart City, Spatial Inequality, Urban PlanningSpatial inequality in basic service provision can negatively affect living standards, economic security, and human rights, and have wide policy implications. Thus, the issue needs to be considered when developing strategic planning for smart city development. Professor ZHANG Xiaoling and her team presented a new methodology to evaluate the distribution of resources in metropolitan cities based on small-area-level analysis, and proved the effectiveness of this methodology using New York City as an empirical case.
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Structured Handovers of Nurses for Better Patient Care
Clinical Handover, One HealthAdopting a structured and clear clinical handovers can largely reduce any miscommunication about patient that leads to avoidable incidents, says Dr Jack PUN of CityU’s Department of English.
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Efficacy of Omega-3 Supplementation in Reducing Antisocial Behaviour
Antisocial Behaviour, Children Development, One HealthOmega-3 supplementation may help reduce childhood antisocial and aggressive behaviour in females, and in children with high psychopathic-like personality, in an East Asian population, a study conducted by Dr Annis FUNG Lai-chu suggested.
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Process-based Model in Digital Multimodal Composing Assessment
Digital SocietyCLASS Faculty investigated how to assess the multimodal compositions, which go beyond expression through language alone, by interviewing teachers on a CityU course in English for science, about how they assess students’ digital video scientific documentaries.
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基於社會─生態系統框架下的小城鎮轉型治理機制研究
Smart City, Sustainability, Urbanisation本文將小城鎮置於新的理論框架—社會-生態系統之中，從行動者的行為邏輯和制度框架視角出發，提出相應的轉型治理模式，並展望未來可能的發展方向，提倡將「以人為本」和「生態保護」作為新型城鎮化道路的基本準則。
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Recent progress on innovative urban infrastructures system towards sustainable resource management
Smart City, SustainabilityTo address various emerging challenges and capture opportunities for urban transition from an infrastructure system innovation perspective, this Special Issue (“Urban infrastructures system for sustainable resource management”) of the journal highlighted recent progress on characterizing the sustainability of infrastructure system towards sustainable urban development and resource management.
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In the wake of the China-Africa ivory trade : more-than-human ethics across borders
conservation, Smart CityGlobal responses to the hotly debated China-Africa ivory trade in the past decade offer an entry point to examine whether and how African elephants have come to matter in China ethically. This article highlights the complexity of more-than-human ethics across geographic spaces and politico-cultural boundaries.
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Correlating PM2.5 concentrations with air pollutant emissions : A longitudinal study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region
Smart City, Sustainability, UrbanisationThis paper models the statistical relationship between PM2.5 concentration and air pollutant emissions (SO2, NOx, etc.), together with wind and neighboring transfer impacts at the city level, to identify ways of calculating intended maximum emission levels in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area.
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Social media and citizen engagement : A meta-analytic review
Digital Society, Social MediaThis meta-analytic study reviews empirical research published from 2007 to 2013 with an aim of providing robust conclusions about the relationship between social media use and citizen engagement.
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Context Collapse or Context Relapse? Analyzing Social and Anti-Social Affordances of Social Media
Digital Society, Social MediaThis paper takes a closer look at two widely used and closely linked concepts in social media scholarship—affordances and context collapse—and critically assesses their value for future research.
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Editorial: Introduction to this Special Issue : English for Academic and Professional Purposes in the Digital Era
Digital Society, English LanguageDevelopments in digital communication technologies have had a significant effect on the way that people communicate, including how we gain access to, create and disseminate knowledge in academic and professional contexts. The purpose of this special issue is to engage with these issues.
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Inadvertent Learning on a Portal Site : A Longitudinal Field Experiment
Digital SocietyLongitudinal analysis using a follow-up survey not only demonstrated that the inadvertent learning effect persisted even after 2 months of the experiment but also suggested that the effect spilled over to new learning opportunities.
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Electoral and Public Opinion Forecasts with Social Media Data : A Meta-Analysis
Digital Society, Social MediaIn recent years, many studies have used social media data to make estimates of electoral outcomes and public opinion. This paper reports the findings from a meta-analysis examining the predictive power of social media data.
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The Role of Expectation Violation in Online Patient-Doctor Communication: Evidence from a Chinese Online E-health Websites
eHealth, One HealthDrawing on the expectancy violation theory, this study investigates how patients’ expectation affects their trust with the doctor and their satisfaction with the mediated patient-doctor interaction.
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媒體在流行病爆發事件中的干預作用 : 基於傳染病模型理論和新型冠狀病毒疫情案例的分析
COVID-19, Media, One Health本文從流行病傳播動力學的角度，探討媒體在應對突發公共衛生事件中的干預作用，認為在應對以突發公共衛生事件為代表的社會危機時，媒體需要在科學的指導下開展工作，才能精准地發揮公共影響力，產生正面的干預效果。
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The Impact of Government Trust on the Public Health Risk Management : An Empirical Study Based on Changsheng Bio-Technology Vaccine Incident
Public Health RiskThis study acknowledges the current research gap and builds an integrative framework portraying a more comprehensive picture about the relationship between government trust and public health risk assessment in the high-trust Chinese context.
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公益廣告的健康傳播策略評估 : 以香港流感廣告爲例
influenza, One Health本文通過對2010年-2013年的香港流感公益廣告進行內容分析，來研究評估其宣傳效果。研究發現大部分的流感廣告從健康傳播的角度存在策略性的不足。
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Giving the Disabled a Helping Hand to Equality
Community Impact, DisabledThe project “A Ten-year Rehabilitation Programme Plan for Macau 2016-2025” of Professor Wing LO, Acting Head of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences provides a comprehensive policy framework to support the integration of disabled people into society.
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Safeguarding intangible heritage through edutainment in China’s creative urban environments
Heritage, Smart CityDr LUO Yu of the Department of Chinese and History critically examines the role of edutainment in intangible heritage preservation.
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Unveil Urbanization ‘Bubbles’ in China : Sustainable Urbanization in Theory and Policy
Smart City, Sustainability, UrbanisationThis chapter reflects the matching of urbanization demand and supply through the four-quadrant axis and completes the empirical analysis of China’s urbanization bubble in terms of land between 2006 and 2016.
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Examining the roles of social media and alternative media in social movement participation : A study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
Digital Society, Social MediaDuring the recent wave of pro-democracy movement across the world, new media technologies play a vital role in mobilizing participants. This study examines the impacts of social media and alternative media on social movement participation in Hong Kong.
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Establishing the Innovative Spectrum Policies to support the 5G, IOT, and AI Ecosystem : Case of Taiwan
5G, AI, Digital Society, iotSince many companies or organizations in Taiwan have expressed the need to build 5G enterprise application networks, the government in Taiwan has committed to establish innovative spectrum policies to support the vertical application model to develop the 5G enterprise network to accelerate the digital transformation. This presentation will discuss the stakeholders’ views with regard to the 5G vertical application domains.
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Depolarization through Social Media Use : Evidence from dual identifiers in Hong Kong
Digital Society, Social MediaThis article elaborates the roles played by different forms of social identities, by analysing three datasets collected in Hong Kong,
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唐代人物大數據 : 中國歷代人物傳記資料庫（CBDB）和數位史學
Digital Humanities, Digital Society本書嘗試回顧數碼化中國文學（及研究）的現狀，探討兩岸三地文學作品對數碼科技的運用與描寫，以及電子資料庫對中國人文學科研究的優勢與局限。
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Charting the Emergence of the Digital Humanities in China
Digital Humanities, Digital SocietyThis chapter seeks to chart the emergence of the digital humanities paradigm within the Chinese humanities, especially its more recent developments from the mid-2010s onwards.
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Countering Anti-Vaccination Rumors on Twitter
influenza, One Health, Social MediaThis study examined the effects of the counter-rumor on changes in belief about the anti-vaccination claim, anxiety associated with the rumor, intentions to vaccinate a child and share the rumor.
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A Cross-cultural Examination of Masculinity and Health Behaviour in Hong Kong : the Mediating Role of Age and Social Support
One HealthThis study examined masculinity as a predictor of engagement in health behaviour, and explores the mediating effect of age and social support on the relationship between conformity to masculine norms and health behaviour.
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The Macrosecuritization of Antimicrobial Resistance in China
One HealthDrawing on knowledge of both Chinese politics and health security, this article analyzes how Chinese actors have responded to the threat in the public and animal health sectors as well as the domestic and international implications of these responses.
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Reconstruction of Transmission Pairs for novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in mainland China : Estimation of Super-spreading Events, Serial Interval, and Hazard of Infection
Coronavirus, COVID-19, One HealthKnowledge on the epidemiological features and transmission patterns of COVID-19 is accumulating. Detailed line-list data with household settings can advance the understanding of COVID-19 transmission dynamics.
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Overcoming Barriers to Influenza Vaccination in Hong Kong: Designing Culture-Centric Narratives for Health Promotion
influenza, One HealthDespite its effectiveness in prevention, the influenza vaccination coverage in Hong Kong has remained lower than the 30% threshold proportion required for building up basic herd immunity. This project tries to introduce narrative persuasion as an effective tool for promoting influenza vaccine uptakes in Hong Kong.
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A Pre- and Post-test Intervention Design to Develop a Communication Training Model for Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): a Pilot Study
Chinese Medicine, One HealthThis study will investigate the effectiveness of an intervention enhancing TCM practitioners' communication skills. The proposed intervention is expected to improve patient-centred communication and proficiency and to result in better care through the integration of patient’s Western medical history.
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