MAR 2023 ISSUE 51

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Feature Stories



Research

Online Platform Trains Professionals to Deliver Proven Benefits of Brief Smoking Cessation Advice

Dr Derek Cheung Yee-tak | Assistant Professor

Smoking is a serious threat to global public health. Although the smoking rate in Hong Kong has been continuously declining, there are still more than 600,000 daily smokers here and the related economic loss is about

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Teaching and Learning

Equipping Students with an International Outlook – Abroad and at Home

Dr Polly Chan Siu-ling | Senior Lecturer|Director, Bachelor of Nursing (Part-time) Programme (RN)|Chair of International Affairs Sub-committee

The University of Hong Kong’s commitment to being Asia’s global university is supported by its emphasis on internationalisation, defined as the process of integrating a global, international and intercultural dimension into

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Implementation Science

New Model Predicts Cardiovascular Disease Risk in a Chinese Population

Dr Celine Chui Sze-ling | Assistant Professor, School of Nursing and School of Public Health

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including coronary heart disease and stroke, are the most common fatal non-communicable diseases globally and were responsible for an estimated 18.6 million deaths in 2019. In Hong Kong,

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