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Tai Hing Lam
Epidemiology
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Open AccessDoes economic development contribute to sex differences in ischaemic heart disease mortality? Hong Kong as a natural experiment using a case-control study
The male excess risk of premature ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality may be partially due to an unknown macro-environmental influence associated with economic development. We examined whether excess male r...
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Open AccessAlcohol and cardio-respiratory deaths in Chinese: a population-based case-control study of 32,462 older Hong Kong adults
In observational studies moderate alcohol use reduces cardio-respiratory mortality. However observational studies may be biased by many factors including residual confounding by unmeasured differences between ...
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Open AccessAdolescents' experience of comments about their weight – prevalence, accuracy and effects on weight misperception
Weight comments are commonly received by adolescents, but the accuracy of the comments and their effects on weight misperception are unclear. We assessed the prevalence and accuracy of weight comments received...
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Open AccessHealth-related physical fitness and weight status in Hong Kong adolescents
This study was designed to investigate the relation between health-related physical fitness and weight status in Hong Kong adolescents.
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Open AccessIs childhood meat eating associated with better later adulthood cognition in a develo** population?
Inadequate childhood nutrition is associated with poor short-term academic and cognitive outcomes. Dietary supplementation with meat is associated with better cognitive outcome in children. Whether childhood n...
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Open AccessFamily structure, parent-child conversation time and substance use among Chinese adolescents
The family plays a vital role in sha** adolescent behaviours. The present study investigated the associations between family structure and substance use among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents.
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Open AccessThree versions of Perceived Stress Scale: validation in a sample of Chinese cardiac patients who smoke
Smoking causes heart disease, the major cause of death in China and Hong Kong. Stress is one major trigger of smoking and relapse, and understanding stress among smoking cardiac patients can therefore help in ...
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Open AccessWho wants a slimmer body? The relationship between body weight status, education level and body shape dissatisfaction among young adults in Hong Kong
Body shape dissatisfaction has been thought to have an indispensable impact on weight control behaviors. We investigated the prevalence of body shape dissatisfaction (BSD) and explored its association with wei...
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Open AccessDevelo** community-based preventive interventions in Hong Kong: a description of the first phase of the family project
This paper describes the development of culturally-appropriate family-based interventions and their relevant measures, to promote family health, happiness and harmony in Hong Kong. Programs were developed in t...
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Open AccessDepressive symptoms and suicide in 56,000 older Chinese: a Hong Kong cohort study
To examine dose–response associations between depressive symptoms and suicide and modification effects of sex, age and health status in older Chinese.
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Open AccessThe alcohol industry lobby and Hong Kong’s zero wine and beer tax policy
Whereas taxation on alcohol is becoming an increasingly common practice in many countries as part of overall public health measures, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government is bucking the trend ...
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Open AccessBringing scientific rigor to community-developed programs in Hong Kong
This paper describes efforts to generate evidence for community-developed programs to enhance family relationships in the Chinese culture of Hong Kong, within the framework of community-based participatory res...
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Non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior: prevalence, co-occurrence, and correlates of suicide among adolescents in Hong Kong
Despite increasing concern over the prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents, there is debate about its classification as a stand-alone psychiatric diagnosis. This study investigated the...
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Open AccessThe illusion of righteousness: corporate social responsibility practices of the alcohol industry
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an integral element of how the alcohol industry promotes itself. The existing analyses of CSR in the alcohol industry point to the misleading nature of these CS...
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Open AccessSex knowledge, attitudes, and high-risk sexual behaviors among unmarried youth in Hong Kong
Little is known about sex knowledge, attitudes, and high-risk sexual behaviors among unmarried youth in Hong Kong. It is of public health importance to investigate this topic to inform sex education, policymak...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of a parental training programme in enhancing the parent–child relationship and reducing harsh parenting practices and parental stress in preparing children for their transition to primary school: a randomised controlled trial
Entering primary school is an important childhood milestone, marking the beginning of a child’s formal education. Yet the change creates a time of vulnerability for the child, the parents and the parent–child ...
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Resilience and depressive symptoms in mainland Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong
Immigrants are highly vulnerable to the development of psychological problems such as depressive symptoms, which calls for further study of immigration in the Eastern context. Identification of factors that pr...
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Open AccessSmoking among Hong Kong Chinese women: behavior, attitudes and experience
The numbers of women smoking have risen 72.5% since 1990 with the increasing population – from 56,100 to 96,800 in 2012, reflecting an alarming situation in Hong Kong. The study aimed to describe the smoking b...
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Open AccessThe effect of a very brief smoking-reduction intervention in smokers who have no intention to quit: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Tobacco use is one of the most common preventable causes of death, but more than half of the Chinese men still use tobacco products. Moreover, 63.6% of Chinese smokers have stated that they would not consider ...
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Open AccessAn evaluation study of a gender-specific smoking cessation program to help Hong Kong Chinese women quit smoking
There is a lack of population-based smoking cessation interventions targeting woman smokers in Hong Kong, and in Asia generally. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a gender-specific smoking cess...
