Hidden Drug Abuse in Hong Kong: From Social Acquaintance to Social Isolation

Child sexual abuse in Hong Kong.

Negative social events, stress, and health in Hong Kong.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the association, if any, between negative social events and physical illness. DESIGN Comparison of major social events and indices of disease. SETTING-Hong Kong, 1962 to 1985. SUBJECTS Patients treated in hospital for attempted suicide, coronary heart disease, and diabetes mellitus. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Major events were selected from the annual Hon...

A concept mapping study on social inclusion in Hong Kong

A focus group study involving concept mapping was conducted in September 2012 to investigate how the concept of social inclusion was understood by Hong Kong residents. It was a replication of an earlier UK study. Seven groups involving 61 participants (38 females; 23 males) were interviewed, including non-professional workers at a Nongovernment Organisation service, senior centre users, a mixed...

Social structure and support networks in Beijing and Hong Kong

This study examines personal support networks in Beijing and Hong Kong, based on survey data collected in 2000. It was found that these two Chinese cities, which share a common Confucian cultural heritage, are similar in many aspects of social support. The supportive roles of spouse or partner are prominent and diffuse. Other close relatives are more involved in instrumental than emotional supp...

Social capital and normalisation of adolescent drug use in Hong Kong

The upsurge in consumption of party drugs among adolescents in recent years in Hong Kong has been part of the global trend of adolescent recreational use of drugs at rave parties, discos and similar party settings. Scholars in Western societies have recently proposed the thesis of “normalisation of adolescent drug use” to describe such a trend. This paper applies the normalisation thesis to ana...