Health-seeking, intercultural health communication, and health outcomes: An intersectional study of ethnic minorities' lived experiences.

Aims: To explore ethnic minorities' lived experiences of health-seeking and healthcare utilization in Hong Kong, and to examine the impact of intersectionality of sociocultural identities on intercultural health communication.

Design: Qualitative exploratory design.

Methods: Data collection methods were semi-structured interviews, unstructured observations, and unstructured informal group discussions.

The Interaction Effect of Gender and Residential Environment, Individual Resources, and Needs Satisfaction on Quality of Life Among Older Adults in the United Kingdom.

To examine the difference in gender and its impact on selected quality-of-life (QoL) domains of Social Production Function theory among older adults in England. Based on an annual national adult social care service user survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2016. QoL was assessed by a single-item construct, and independent variables were home design, access to information and local area, self-rated health, perceived pain/discomfort, perceived anxiety/depression, activities of daily living, use and satisfaction of formal and informal care, and demographic variables.

Social functioning, polypharmacy and depression in older Chinese primary care patients.

Objective: This study aims to identify the relationship among social functioning, polypharmacy and depression among older patients in Hong Kong.

Method: Three out of 18 elderly health centres were selected using the cluster sampling method. 457 elders were randomly selected from all the patients aged 65 and over attending the centres, and were interviewed using the Chinese Minimum Data Set-Home Care in 1999.