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HKU Kadoorie Institute launches "Living Water & Community Revitalisation – An Agricultural-led Action, Engagement and Incubation Programme at Lai Chi Wo"
The HKU Kadoorie Institute will officially launch the "Living Water & Community Revitalisation - An Agricultural-led Action, Engagement and Incubation Programme at Lai Chi Wo" on April 30, 2016. The project is a multi-year rural community development and revitalisation programme which promotes sustainable rural development through farming revitalisation, traditional village conservation, education programmes and scientific research. The aim of the programme is to revive the appearance and activities of the traditional Hakka village Lai Chi Wo as much as possible.
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HKU researchers urge more physical activities in schools to improve children's mental health
Dr Robin Mellecker, Honorary Assistant Professor of the HKU Institute of Human Performance, and Dr Frances Law, Associate Director of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of HKU, urge schools to allow more time for children to engage in physical activities, which will help them grow up physically and mentally healthy.
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HKU Department of Social Work and Social Administration and the Hong Kong Cancer Fund offer first "Lung Cancer Fighter Course" for patients and family caregivers
The research team of Department of Social Work and Social Administration at HKU and the Hong Kong Cancer Fund collaborated to offer the "Lung Cancer Fighter Course" to provide psychosocial interventions for lung cancer patients and their family caregivers, with an aim to enhance the quality of life in their journey fighting cancer. Previous studies conducted by the research team have shown that the physical and mental health of patients and their family caregivers, such as anxiety, depression, and sleep quality, interact and reinforce each other. The "Lung Cancer Fighter Course" is the first psychosocial interventions programme designed specifically for lung cancer patients and their family caregivers. The 8-section course, which will run from April to June, includes medical information, tips on coping with cancer treatment, the mind-body connection, stress management, mindfulness practices, information sharing on diet and coping with side effects of treatments, communication with health care professionals and among family members.
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The Council on Smoking and Health, HKU and HKBU researchers call for complete ban of e-cigarettes
The Council on Smoking and Health (COSH) commissioned Baptist University to carry out a laboratory test on the components of thirteen e-cigarettes in the market from October 2015 to February 2016. The test confirmed that e-cigarettes contain harmful chemicals including carcinogens that are hazardous to health. COSH had earlier commissioned the HKU School of Public Health and Public Opinion Programme to conduct respectively the Tobacco Control Policy-related Survey and an opinion survey to interview over 5,000 respondents to monitor the prevalence of e-cigarette use and measure public opinion on its ban in Hong Kong. It was found that 68% of users did not know what they inhaled. Although only 0.2% of respondents had used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days, the rate (7.9%) among young current smokers aged 15 to 29 years was significantly higher than that of current smokers aged 30 years or above. The majority of respondents supported various regulatory measures on e-cigarettes. The Government is urged to enact total ban on e-cigarettes promptly to prevent its epidemic and stop it from becoming the gateway to youth smoking in Hong Kong.
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HKU Social Sciences Research Centre announces "Language use, proficiency and attitudes in Hong Kong" survey findings
The Social Sciences Research Centre of the University carried out a research project that involved (i) the conduct of a community-wide language survey from August 2014 - January 2015; and (ii) the detailed analysis of language data from the 2011 Census of the HKSAR. The project was funded by the Public Policy Research Funding Scheme of the Central Policy Unit, HKSARG. The results of the project have the potential to contribute to a much greater understanding of patterns of language acquisition, language use and multilingualism within the Hong Kong community; and will contribute to a much fuller understanding of language acquisition, language use and multilingualism within the Hong Kong community.
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New website launched to help students with mathematics difficulties: Maths Buddy
The Maths Buddy website, jointly developed by Dr Sandra Tsang Kit Man of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, and Dr Ida Mok Ah Chee of the Faculty of Education, focuses on helping children with mathematics difficulties at primary school level. The resources include an introduction, tools for learning mathematics, suggested games and stories of hope shared by a doctor and his family of a child with dyslexia and math difficulties. The tools and experience shared by the family may be helpful to other children with dyscalculia, math difficulties associated with dyslexia / attention-deficit disorders / other special educational needs. This website project was supported by the HKU Knowledge Exchange funding.
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Knowledge Exchange Awards 2015
The Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards were introduced in 2011 in order to recognize each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organizations. Results of the 2015 Faculty KE Awards are now available.
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