Genevieve Leung
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 184482 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Genevieve Leung |
| NOMBRES | Genevieve |
| APELLIDO | Leung |
| FIRMA | LEUNG G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2503-6283 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 126 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 174 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 126 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Looking Back at Hong Kong
Review of: Looking Back at Hong Kong: An Anthology of Writing and Art , Nicolette Wong (ed.) (2021) Hong Kong: Cart Noodle Press, 156 pp., ISBN 978-9-88756-460-7, p/bk, USD 18.00
Mougwa is just like dunggwa more or less”
Body mass index trajectories and all-cause mortality in older Chinese adults
BACKGROUND: Weight loss at older ages appears to be associated with higher mortality in Western and some East Asian countries, despite differences in the prevalence of obesity; whether it is relevant to China is unknown. We examined the association of body mass index (BMI) trajectories with all-cause mortality in older Chinese adults by sex and baseline age (65-69 years, 70+ years). METHODS: 54 160 participants aged 65 or above from Hong Kong's E…
Life and work between home and “homeland”
Unlike Korean or Vietnamese adoptees who came to the U.S. during the postwar era, Chinese adoptees are mostly abandoned female infants under China’s one-child policy from 1980 through 2015. Little work has documented Chinese adoptees’ identity (trans)formation across time and space. This study examines how three Chinese adoptees from the U.S. who chose to go to Taiwan to teach English make sense of their Chinese heritages and their lives in and o…
Association of childhood food consumption and dietary pattern with cardiometabolic risk factors and metabolomics in late adolescence
BACKGROUND: Healthy diet might protect against cardiometabolic diseases, but uncertainty exists about its definition and role in adolescence. METHOD: In a subset of Hong Kong's 'Children of 1997' birth cohort (n=2844 out of 8327), we prospectively examined sex-specific associations of food consumption and dietary pattern, proxied by the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) at~12.0 years, with cardiometabolic risk factors and metabolomics at~17.6 year…
“It Looks Like You’re Making Very Healthy Choices”
Addressing patient-clinician communication barriers to improve multiple chronic disease care is a public health priority. While significant research exists about the patient-clinician encounter, less is known about how to support patient-clinician communication about lifestyle changes that includes the context of people's lives. Data come from a larger photo-based primary care study collected from 13 participants who were adults 60 or older with …
‘What if I was not adopted’
While race in TESOL has gained traction in recent years, less research has focused on Asian American teachers working in Asian contexts, not to mention Chinese adoptees from the US working as English teachers in Asia. Drawing from our larger study on the work narratives of Asian Americans teaching English in Taiwan, this paper examines how Chinese adoptees negotiate their linguistic and cultural competencies and identities in Taiwan. We uncover t…
Relative Deprivation, Income Inequality, and Cardiovascular Health
The associations between absolute vs. relative income at the household or neighborhood level and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk remain understudied in the Chinese context. Further, it is unclear whether stress biomarkers, such as cortisol, are on the pathway from income to CVD risk. We examined the associations of absolute and relative income with CVD risk observationally, as well as the mediating role of cortisol, and validated the role of co…
‘It’s not my Chinese’
Translanguaging theory re-conceptualizes the linguistic systems and practices of multilinguals as well as multilingual classroom pedagogies. While many studies have documented translanguaging in bilingual classrooms, there is little discussion about how translanguaging can advance the field of heritage language education. This paper shares findings from a qualitative investigation of a Mandarin heritage program in the U.S. enrolling ethnic Chines…
Examining the emergence of Hong Kong identity
Research on Hong Kong identity has focused on several pivotal periods (the 1997 Handover, and the 2014 and 2019 protests), which situates local, postcolonial Hong Kong identity as oppositional to a national Chinese identity. While these time points are critical, it is also important to attend to earlier Hong Kong media, including humorous works. Better understanding of how Hong Kong humour operates expands our knowledge about humour, identity and…
Language proficiency and competence
Building on research that has demonstrated the benefits of Dual-Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programmes on students’ bilingual, academic, and cross-cultural development (Lindholm-Leary and Hernández 2011 Lindholm-Leary, K., and Ana Hernández. 2011. “Achievement and Language Proficiency of Latino Students in Dual Language Programmes: Native English Speakers, Fluent English/Previous ELLs, and Current ELLs.” Journal of Multilingual and Multic…
I think my parents like me being bilingual’
While the role of parental ideologies on children’s bi/multilingual development and the role of children’s beliefs about multilingualism are well-documented, less work examines how parental and student ideologies are enacted through talk. That is, how do students interpret what their family caregivers tell them about bi/multilingualism, and how do these beliefs about English and partner language(s) get enacted as a form of social personae? This a…
The future of human behaviour research
Integrating Social Determinants in Decision-Making Processes for Health
Improving Decision-Making for Population Health in Nonhealth Sectors in Urban Environments
Maybe useful to the future generation but not my own
Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks
Mental Health, Risk Factors, and Social Media Use During the Covid-19 Epidemic and Cordon Sanitaire Among the Community and Health Professionals in Wuhan, China
BACKGROUND: The mental health consequences of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, community-wide interventions, and social media use during a pandemic are unclear. The first and most draconian interventions have been implemented in Wuhan, China, and these countermeasures have been increasingly deployed by countries around the world. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine risk factors, including the use of social media, for proba…
First-wave Covid-19 transmissibility and severity in China outside Hubei after control measures, and second-wave scenario planning
Impact assessment of non-pharmaceutical interventions against coronavirus disease 2019 and influenza in Hong Kong
Background A range of public health measures have been implemented to suppress local transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hong Kong. We examined the effect of these interventions and behavioural changes of the public on the incidence of COVID-19, as well as on influenza virus infections, which might share some aspects of transmission dynamics with COVID-19. Methods We analysed data on laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases, influen…
Estimating clinical severity of Covid-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China
Depression and post-traumatic stress during major social unrest in Hong Kong
Temporal dynamics in viral shedding and transmissibility of Covid-19
Nowcasting and forecasting the potential domestic and international spread of the 2019-nCoV outbreak originating in Wuhan, China
Trish Morita-Mullaney
A multilevel analysis of the effects of neighbourhood income inequality on individual self-rated health in Hong Kong
Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies
Relationships Among Language Ideologies, Family Language Policies, and Children's Language Achievement
This article examines the reported language ideologies and family language policies of the parents of Cantonese-English bilinguals in the U.S. in relation to their children's achievement scores in Cantonese and English. We explore the relationships first by language of instruction. Results show children in bilingual classrooms scored higher than those in mainstream (English-only) classrooms on the Cantonese tasks, but significantly more children …
Suicidality and cultural values among Hong Kong adolescents
The impact of community psychological responses on outbreak control for severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong
Objective: To examine the public’s knowledge and perception of SARS and the extent to which various precautionary measures have been adopted. Design: Cross sectional survey. Setting: General population of Hong Kong at the height of the SARS outbreak (29 March to 6 April 2003). Participants: 1115 ethnic Chinese adults. Main results: Forty per cent did not recognise fomites as a possible mode of transmission whereas 55.1% believed that the infectio…
A socio-biological explanation for social disparities in non-communicable chronic diseases
This study places social disparities in the major non-communicable chronic diseases within their global economic and historical contexts. Rapid economic transition outside the developed world provides a unique opportunity to re-examine the origins of, and biological mechanisms driving, social disparities. Gaps in prevailing theories focusing on material resources, civic infrastructure and social structure are identified. Using longstanding experi…
Are height and leg length universal markers of childhood conditions? The Guangzhou Biobank cohort study
OBJECTIVE: In developed western populations longer legs have been shown to be a marker of better early childhood conditions. In the first generations to experience the epidemiologic transition and associated economic development, epigenetic constraints on growth might preclude improved childhood conditions from increasing leg growth or height. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Multivariable linear regression was used to assess the association of …
The ecology of health care in Hong Kong
Student attitudes and Cantonese proficiency in a Cantonese dual immersion school
Previous research reports the positive impact of dual immersion programs on students' language proficiency, yet fewer studies have examined students' attitudes in such programs. The current study examined student attitudes and language proficiency in a Cantonese dual immersion school and explored relationships between students' attitudes and language proficiency in Cantonese. Language proficiency results showed that, on average, Cantonese immersi…
Inequality and inequity in access to health care and treatment for chronic conditions in China
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a large and rapidly-growing problem in China and other middle-income countries. Clinical treatment of NCDs is long-term and expensive, so it may present particular problems for equality and horizontal equity (equal treatment for equal need) in access to health care, although little is known about this at present in low- and middle-income countries. To address this gap, and inform policy for a substantial propo…
Is leg length a biomarker of childhood conditions in older Chinese women? The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
OBJECTIVE: In developed western populations longer legs have been shown to be a biomarker of better early childhood conditions. It was hypothesised that in transitioning populations better childhood conditions may bring forward puberty and thus decrease leg length, counteracting the overall positive effect of a favourable childhood environment on leg growth. DESIGN: Structural equation modelling was used to assess the interrelationship of age, ed…
Height, Its Components, and Cardiovascular Risk Among Older Chinese
Objectives. Better childhood conditions, inferred from height and specifically leg length, are usually protective against ischemic heart disease and its risk factors in Western countries. In other geoethnic populations, height is less clearly protective, casting doubt on there being a biological etiology. To clarify the role of childhood conditions, we examined the associations of height and its components with cardiovascular risk among older Chi…
Longitudinal Patterns and Predictors of Depression Trajectories Related to the 2014 Occupy Central/Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
Objectives. To examine the longitudinal patterns and predictors of depression trajectories before, during, and after Hong Kong’s 2014 Occupy Central/Umbrella Movement. Methods. In a prospective study, between March 2009 and November 2015, we interviewed 1170 adults randomly sampled from the population-representative FAMILY Cohort. We used the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to assess depressive symptoms and probable major depression. We investigat…
Learning Cantonese will help us”
Though Cantonese has been spoken in the United States since the 1880s, very little is known about the attitudes of younger Cantonese speakers and learners and their ideas about their bi/multilingual identities. We fill this gap by reporting findings from focus group interviews with 14 fourth and fifth graders attending a Cantonese-English DLI school. We asked participants to discuss their beliefs about bi/multilingualism, their experiences with t…
Translingual practice in L2 Japanese
Translingual practice is an emergent theoretical perspective which emphasizes the capacity and disposition for meaning-making across linguistic boundaries. Following on studies of globalized workplaces that have focused on lingua franca English, this article explores translingual practice as represented in interview and blog narratives recounted by multilingual, multiethnic young adults hired by Japanese schools and companies for their English pr…
Socioeconomic influences at different life stages on health in Guangzhou, China
The future of human behaviour research
Maybe useful to the future generation but not my own
A Different Story to Share”
In a broader context where English is marketed as a desirable product of consumption, hiring English speakers as language teachers and de facto cultural ambassadors is a common practice in some East Asian countries. This paper investigates how 20 self-identified Asian American teachers in Taiwan teaching English in local schools wrestle with the positionality of their racialized selves and idealized “nativeness.” Using an informal interview appro…
Understanding sociohistorical imprint on cancer risk by age–period–cohort decomposition in Hong Kong
BACKGROUND: Research on trends in cancer incidence has usually examined single sites in populations that long ago completed the economic transition. The trends in 11 cancers in three groups in the recently transitioned Hong Kong Chinese population were examined to delineate the effects of economic transition and provide generalised aetiological insights. METHODS: Sex-specific Poisson models were fitted to cancer incidence in Hong Kong (1974-2003)…
Intergenerational 'mismatch' and adiposity in a developing population
Depressive Symptoms Among Hong Kong Adolescents
Will Screening Mammography in the East Do More Harm than Good
Objectives. We sought to systematically review the evidence for population-based mammography as applied to a Chinese population. Methods. Primary reports for meta-analysis were identified by a search of MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library. Outcome measures included breast cancer–related mortality, the number needed to be screened to prevent 1 death, and the positive predictive value of mammography. Results. Pooled relative risk for breast cancer–rel…
I think my parents like me being bilingual’
While the role of parental ideologies on children’s bi/multilingual development and the role of children’s beliefs about multilingualism are well-documented, less work examines how parental and student ideologies are enacted through talk. That is, how do students interpret what their family caregivers tell them about bi/multilingualism, and how do these beliefs about English and partner language(s) get enacted as a form of social personae? This a…
Household income and adolescent blood pressure in a Chinese birth cohort
Peptic ulcer disease and exposure to domestic pets
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed whether an association exists between household pets and peptic ulcer disease. METHODS: Canadian adults (n = 15,779) were asked about cats or dogs in their household and about history of peptic ulcer disease. Logistic regression was used to assess the association between pet ownership and a history of peptic ulcer disease, after adjustment for sociodemographic differences. RESULTS: No relationship was observed betw…
Will Screening Mammography in the East Do More Harm than Good
Objectives. We sought to systematically review the evidence for population-based mammography as applied to a Chinese population. Methods. Primary reports for meta-analysis were identified by a search of MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library. Outcome measures included breast cancer–related mortality, the number needed to be screened to prevent 1 death, and the positive predictive value of mammography. Results. Pooled relative risk for breast cancer–rel…
The economic burden of environmental tobacco smoke in the first year of life
Objectives: To assess public attitudes toward the tobacco industry and its products, and to identify predictors of attitudes supportive of tobacco industry denormalisation. Design: Population based, cross
The impact of community psychological responses on outbreak control for severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong
Objective: To examine the public’s knowledge and perception of SARS and the extent to which various precautionary measures have been adopted. Design: Cross sectional survey. Setting: General population of Hong Kong at the height of the SARS outbreak (29 March to 6 April 2003). Participants: 1115 ethnic Chinese adults. Main results: Forty per cent did not recognise fomites as a possible mode of transmission whereas 55.1% believed that the infectio…
Leung Et Al. Respond
We agree with Tseng and Fang’s extrapolation of our calculations to Asian Americans but differ on their interpretation of the results. First, while Asian Americans suffered fewer breast cancer–related deaths, their mortality rates relative to incidence for women aged 50 years and older in 1996 (32.7/126.4 per 100 000 = 0.26) were in fact higher than those reported for Whites (78.2/367.4 per 100 000 = 0.21).1 Second, their assertion that “any canc…
Waiting Time, Doctor Shopping, and Nonattendance at Specialist Outpatient Clinics
OBJECTIVE: Nonattendance is a major health services research and management issue that has received little attention or systematic study in Asia. We examined the independent associations between waiting time, doctor shopping, and nonattendance in specialist outpatient clinics of 4 large public hospitals in Hong Kong. RESEARCH DESIGN: Case-control study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A total of 6495 attenders and nonattenders enrolled from July 2000 t…
Depressive Symptoms Among Hong Kong Adolescents
Suicidality and cultural values among Hong Kong adolescents
Longitudinal Assessment of Community Psychobehavioral Responses During and After the 2003 Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong
BACKGROUND: In previous literature, the stability and temporal evolution of psychobehavioral responses to an outbreak remained undefined, because of the exclusively cross-sectional nature of such study designs. METHODS: Using random-digit dialing, we sampled 4481 Hong Kong residents in 6 population-based surveys that were conducted at different times during and after the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). RESULTS: Responde…
Secondhand smoke and respiratory ill health in current smokers
SHS exposure is strongly associated with increased acute respiratory symptoms and recent outpatient service utilisation in current smokers. If the association is causal, public health action to limit SHS exposure could also benefit smokers
Brief communication
The Impact of Work-related Risk on Nurses During the Sars Outbreak in Hong Kong
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a highly infectious disease, with high potential for transmission to close contacts, particularly among healthcare workers. This is the first systematic study investigating hospital nurses' physical and psychological health status and the kinds of healthcare used-stratified by the level of contact with SARS patients-during the 2003 outbreak in Hong Kong. Nurses in moderate-risk areas appeared to have mo…
The ecology of health care in Hong Kong
Age-period-cohort analysis of cervical cancer incidence in Hong Kong from 1972 to 2001 using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods
Objective: To examine the secular effects of opportunistic screening for cervical cancer in a rich, developed community where most other such populations have long adopted organised screening. Design, setting, and participants: The analysis was based on 15 140 cases of invasive cervical cancer from 1972 to 2001. The effects of chronological age, time period, and birth cohort were decomposed using both maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods. Resu…
A prospective study of stage of change for general health promotion action and health-related lifestyle practices among Chinese adults
Non-attendance and effective equity of access at four public specialist outpatient centers in Hong Kong
Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia
Out‐of‐pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. We focus on payments that are catastrophic, in the sense of severely disrupting household living standards, and approximate such payments by those absorbing a large fraction of household res…
The Incidence of Public Spending on Healthcare
The article compares the incidence of public healthcare across 11 Asian countries and provinces, testing the dominance of healthcare concentration curves against an equal distribution and Lorenz curves and across countries. The analysis reveals that the distribution of public healthcare is prorich in most developing countries. That distribution is avoidable, but a propoor incidence is easier to realize at higher national incomes. The experiences …
Smoking, quitting and mortality in an elderly cohort of 56 000 Hong Kong Chinese
In old age, smoking continues to be a major cause of death, and quitting is beneficial. Smoking cessation is urgently needed in rapidly ageing populations in the East
Height, Its Components, and Cardiovascular Risk Among Older Chinese
Objectives. Better childhood conditions, inferred from height and specifically leg length, are usually protective against ischemic heart disease and its risk factors in Western countries. In other geoethnic populations, height is less clearly protective, casting doubt on there being a biological etiology. To clarify the role of childhood conditions, we examined the associations of height and its components with cardiovascular risk among older Chi…
Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies
Who pays for health care in Asia?
A Screen for Identifying Maladaptive Internet Use
Does economic development contribute to sex differences in ischaemic heart disease mortality? Hong Kong as a natural experiment using a case-control study
Most of these people migrated as young adults; we speculate that environmentally mediated differences in pubertal maturation (when the male disadvantage in lipids and fat patterning emerges) may contribute to excess male premature IHD mortality in developed environments
Early life second-hand smoke exposure and serious infectious morbidity during the first 8 years
Household SHS exposure in early infancy increases severe infectious morbidity requiring hospital admission. Reducing SHS exposure in infants and particularly in more vulnerable infants will lower the bed-days burden due to infectious causes
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