Introduction

How to define poverty? -- Poverty line studies in Hong Kong

• Definition and Measurement of Poverty
  • 2005 LegCo Paper Definition and Measurement of Poverty: Experience in Overseas & HK
  • 2019 Poverty and Social Disadvantage in Hong Kong (Soc Policy Admin)
  • 2020 Impact on Subjective Poverty (Soc Indicators Research)

  

• Income Proxy -Thresold of Change in Consumption
• 1996 HKCSS Household Expenditure Study
• 2001 RGC Hong Kong Poverty Line Study
• Basic Need - Budget Standards Approach
  • 2005 HKCSS Basic Need Study
  • 2018 Oxfam: Research on Living Wage in Hong Kong
• Relative Poverty - 50% of Median Income
  • 2000 Recent Development of Marginal Workers in Hong Kong
  • 2006 Oxfam Hong Kong Poverty Study
• Deprivation - Consensus about Basic Necessities
  • 2012 HKCSS Deprivation & Exclusion Study
  • 2012 Deprivation and Poverty in Hong Kong (Soc Policy & Adm)
  • 2019 Poverty and social disadvantage in Hong Kong (Soc Policy & Adm)
• Social Exclusion - Social Processes that Prevent People from Participating
  • 2014 Signposting disadvantage – social exclusion in Hong Kong (Journal of Asian Public Policy)

What are the Causes of Poverty in Hong Kong?

• Causes of Poverty in the 1990s: Macro, Meso and Micro Analysis
• 2002 Causes of Poverty in Hong Kong in the 1990s
• 2005 Quality of Life of Hong Kong's Poor Households in the 1990s
• Failure of Social Security – the "Unsafe" Safety Net
• 2000 HKCSS Impact of Reducing CSSA
• 2000 Failure of Social Security in Alleviating Poverty （Ａsia Pacific Journal of Social Work)
• 2010 Compare the recent changes of social security policy towards low-income population
• 2012 Impact of Active Labour Market Policies and Statutory Minimum Wage on Welfare Recipients in Hong Kong (會議報告)
• 2016 Deprivation and Social Exclusion of Social Security Recipients (Conference Presentation)
• Lack of Comphrehensive Old Age Income Protection
• 2006 HKCSS Old Age Income Protection Scheme
• 2012 Mandatory Provident Fund vs. Universal Old Age Pension : A Review of the I mpact of Mandatory Provident Fund on Women’s Poverty in Hong Kong (會議報告)
• 2014 Review of Civil Society's Advocacy of Universal Retirement Protection (Book Chapter in Chinese）)
• 2016 Politics in Framing Retirement Protection Policy by Government, Civil Society Organizations and Young Localists (Conference Presentation)
• 2017 Retirement Protection in Hong Kong in the Crossroads: Forging Ahead or Dead-end? (Conference Presentation)
• Social exclusion of the Marginals
• 2001 Oxfam Marginal Worker Qualitative Research
• 2001 Globalisation and Marginalisation of Labour: The Case of Hong Kong (Conference Paper)
• 2002 Marginal Workers in Hong Kong under Globalization (Conference Presentation)
• Deprivation of Social Capital
• 2004 Deprivation of Social Capital
• Geographical Concentration of Poverty in Old Urban Area
• 2000 Poverty in Yau Tsim Mong district
• 2005 Poverty and poverty alleviation in Shamshuipo
• 2011 The Pattern of Urban Life In Hong Kong: A District Level Community Study of Sham Shui Po
• 2019 The impacts of housing factors on deprivation in a world city: The case of Hong Kong (Soc Policy & Adm)

Who are the Poor? How Poor is the Poor?

• General View of Poor peoples in Hong Kong
• 2001 RGC Hong Kong Poverty Line Study
• 2012 Poverty in Hong Kong: A overanll view
• 2015 「無窮」的盼望：香港貧窮問題探析〈增訂版〉 (書籍)
• Impacts of Poverty on the Poor
• 2019 Comparing income poverty gap and deprivation on social acceptance (Soc Policy Admin)



• CSSA Recipients
• 1998 HKCSS Termination & Reactivation of Ex-CSSA
• 2000 Development and Prospect of CSSA
• 2020 Impact of poverty stigma on CSSA recipients (J Asian Public Policy)
• Marginal Workers and Working Poor
• 2000 Oxfam Marginal Worker Quantitative Research
• 2006 Oxfam Hong Kong Poverty Study
• Residents in Remote Area
• 2006 Youth in remote area
• 2007 Women in remote area
• 2008 Elderly in remote area
• Elderly
• 2021 Factors affecting trends in societal indicators of ageing well in Hong Kong: Policies, politics and pandemics (J Nutr Health Aging)

Impacts of Poverty, Deprivation & Social Exclusion

• Subjective Poverty
• 2020 Impact of Income, Deprivation and Social Exclusion on Subjective Poverty: A Structural Equation Model of Multidimensional Poverty in Hong Kong (Social Indicators Research)
• Children
• 2021 Child Deprivation as a Mediator of the Relationships between Family Poverty, Bullying Victimization, and Psychological Distress (Child Indicators Research)
• Social Acceptance
• 2019 Comparing income poverty gap and deprivation on social acceptance: A mediation model with nterpersonal communication and social support (Soc Policy Admin.)

Anti-poverty Policies & Poverty Alleviation Measures

• Policy Impacts
• 2017 Impacts of implementing LIFA (Public Policy Research Report)
• 2016 Statutory minimum wage in Hong Kong: a family impact analysis (J Family Study)



• 2012 Impacts of the Introduction of Statutory Minimum Wage (Public Policy Research Report)
• 2012 Changes in Social Policy in Hong Kong since 1997: Old Wine in New Bottles? (Book Chapter)
• Misled intervention by Misplaced Diagnosis
• 2007 Review of Government Poverty Alleviation Policy (J China Review)



• 2007 Who create poverty? Causes and tackling strategies (book chapter)
• Human Capital vs. Social Capital
• 2006 Human capital, Social Capital and Social Exclusion: Impacts on Youth to Leave Poverty (Int J Adolesc Medicine & Health)
• 2011 Human Capital, Social Capital And Anti Social Exclusion: Review On Different Poverty Alleviation Strategies In Hong Kong (Conference Presentation)
• 2014 How to Eradicate Poverty in Hong Kong? Comment on the Poverty Alleviation Policies of the Commission on Poverty (Conference Presentation)
• Community Economic Development
• 2011 Social (Community) Economy in Hong Kong (Presentation in Chinese)
• 2006 Experience of CED in Hong Kong (Book Chapter in Chinese)

Social Determinants of Health: Poverty & Deprivation

• Impact of Poverty and Deprivation on Health Outcomes
• 2018 Independent role of deprivation in abdominal obersity (J of Public Health)
• 2018 Deprivation is associated with worse physical and mental health (Quality of Life Research)
• 2020 Perceived poverty and health, and their roles in the poverty-health vicious cycle: a qualitative study of major stakeholders in the healthcare setting in Hong Kong(Int. J. for Equity in Health)
• 2020 Socioeconomic disadvantages and their influence on obesity among older adults (European J of Public Health)
• 2021 COVID-19 related health inequality exists even in a city where disease incidence is relatively low: a telephone survey in Hong Kong (J of Epidemiology & Community Health)
• 2021 Deprivation is associated with anxiety and stress. A population-based longitudinal household survey among Chinese adults in Hong Kong (J of Epidemiology & Community Health)
• 2021 Differential Impacts of Multimorbidity on COVID-19 Severity across the Socioeconomic Ladder in Hong Kong: A Syndemic Perspective (Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health)
• 2021 Socioeconomic inequality in mental well-being associated with COVID-19 (Scientific Reports)
• Financial Barriers to Health Care
• 2018 What are the financial barriers to medical care among the poor, the sick and the disabled (PLOS One)
• 2019 Poverty affects access to regular source of primary care(Soc Policy Admin)



• Impacts of Housing Condition on Health
• 2017 Living environment and quality of life in Hong Kong (Asian Geographer)
• 2018 Impact of Housing and Community Condition on Multidimensional Health (Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health)
• 2020 Housing Affordabiliy effects on Physical & Mental Health (J of Epidemiology & Community Health)



• 2020 Association of living density with anxiety and stress: A crosssectional population study in Hong Kong (Health & Soc Care in Community)
• 2021 Housing and Subjective Well‑Being in Hong Kong: A Structural Equation Model (Applied Research in Quality of Life)
• Bedbug Infestations
• 2021 Risk factors associated with bedbug (Cimex spp.) infestations among Hong Kong households: A cross‑sectional study (Journal of Housing and the Built Environment)
• 2021 The Impact of Bedbug (Cimex spp.) Bites on Self-Rated Health and Average Hours of Sleep per Day(Insects)
• Impacts of Labour Condition on Health
• 2021 Long Working Hours, Precarious Employment and Anxiety Symptoms Among Working Chinese Population in Hong Kong (Psychiatric Quarterly)

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