Measuring health-related social deprivation in small areas: development of an index and examination of its association with cancer mortality.

Background: The small-area deprivation indices are varied across countries due to different social context and data availability. Due to lack of chronic disease-related social deprivation index (SDI) in Hong Kong, China, this study aimed to develop a new SDI and examine its association with cancer mortality.

Methods: A total of 14 socio-economic variables of 154 large Tertiary Planning Unit groups (LTPUGs) in Hong Kong were obtained from 2016 population by-census.

Importance of applying Mixed Generalized Additive Model (MGAM) as a method for assessing the environmental health impacts: Ambient temperature and Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), among elderly in Shanghai, China.

Association between acute myocardial infarction (AMI) morbidity and ambient temperature has been examined with generalized linear model (GLM) or generalized additive model (GAM). However, the effect size by these two methods might be biased due to the autocorrelation of time series data and arbitrary selection of degree of freedom of natural cubic splines. The present study analyzed how the climatic factors affected AMI morbidity for older adults in Shanghai with Mixed generalized additive model (MGAM) that addressed these shortcomings mentioned.

Adverse life events and late-life cognitive decline in a Chinese cohort: The Shanghai Aging Study.

Objective: This study aimed to demonstrate the association between adverse life events (ALEs) and the risk of late-life cognitive decline in older community-dwelling individuals in China.

Methods: We prospectively followed up 1657 dementia-free participants with ALE data at baseline in the Shanghai Aging Study. The cohort was categorized into four subgroups (depression with ALEs, depression without ALEs, no depression with ALEs, and no depression without ALEs).

A Projection of Future Hospitalisation Needs in a Rapidly Ageing Society: A Hong Kong Experience.

To assess the impact of ageing on hospitalisation in a rapidly ageing society. A study using retrospective and prospective data was conducted using hospitalisation data with age-specific admission rates in the period from 2001⁻2010 and demographic data from the period of 2001⁻2066 by the United Nations. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) with a 7 million population experiences extreme low fertility (1.

Revisiting knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among female university students in Hong Kong.

Despite cervical cancer can be preventable by HPV vaccination, little is known on its associated factors among young females in Hong Kong. This study aimed to investigate the present situation regarding the self-reported knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and to examine their associated factors among female university students in Hong Kong. 195 respondents were recruited to complete a self-administered questionnaire from two local universities through convenience sampling.

The incomparability of cause of death statistics under "one country, two systems": Shanghai versus Hong Kong.

Background: Valid and comparable cause of death (COD) statistics are crucial for health policy analyses. Variations in COD assignment across geographical areas are well-documented while socio-institutional factors may affect the process of COD and underlying cause of death (UCD) determination. This study examines the comparability of UCD statistics in Hong Kong and Shanghai, having two political systems within one country, and assesses how socio-institutional factors influence UCD comparability.