Chunlan Guo

Chinese University of Hong Kong | CUHK

Maintaining personal wellbeing is essential for an effective pandemic response due to its multifaceted impacts on various aspects of society. This study aimed to evaluate personal wellbeing during pandemic response and investigate the effects of built environment in neighborhoods, risk communication, and health indicators. A cross-sectional survey...

We investigate the shift of travel intentions among Chinese residents following the end of China's Zero‐COVID policy in December 2022. Focusing on the 2023 Spring Festival, the first major holiday after the pandemic, we examine the factors influencing travel intentions, including travel experiences during COVID‐19, sociodemographics, infection and...

Introduction: The current transnational and internal migration involve more and more circular and temporary residences in the host communities. However, few studies have examined the settlement intention of circular and temporary migrant parents with children under 18 years old, which has made inclusive planning for these migrants' needs difficult....

The development of sustainable smart city (SC) services is often carried out with limited resources, but there is little discussion about the strategic priority of promoting SC development from the citizens’ perspective. This study developed a decision-making approach to determine the supply and demand priority of SC services using utility and need...

Background In China, an increasing number of rural mothers participate in urban labour markets, but little is known about their decisions regarding childcare while living in these cities. Why do some rural mothers migrate to the cities with their children, whereas others leave their children behind in the countryside? Methods This study analysed 1...

Characteristics of the urban environment (e.g., building density and road network) can influence the spread and transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) within cities, especially in high-density high-rise built environments. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the key attributes of high-density high-rise built environments to enhance...

Background: Dementia is an emerging public health issue. Growing evidence emerged on the association between social integration and the risk of dementia. However, the magnitude of the association between different aspects of social integration and the risk of dementia is unclear. Methods: Five databases were systematically searched. Newcastle-Ot...

Objectives Factors associated with an individual's awareness of vulnerability can be modified by the infrastructure of a city. These factors may impact disaster preparedness among local populations in an infrastructure-resilient city, which further influences the health risks of various population subgroups. Study design This was a population-base...

The aim in this study was to explore and determine the priorities in nursing research for disaster management. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify and compile a list of statements on research priorities in disaster nursing. Next, a Delphi survey was conducted among experts identified from international disaster nursing professi...

Background Previous studies address posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following disasters as a public health issue. However, few studies investigate the long-term effect of disaster exposure on PTSD among hospital medical workers (HMWs). Objectives This study aimed to study the prevalence of ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD (CPTSD) among exposed an...

Background Resilience is an important trait of health care workers (HCWs), especially those who are exposed to disasters and disaster rescue efforts. However, few studies have examined the long-term impact of disaster exposure on HCWs’ resilience. Objectives This study aimed to compare the resilience of HCWs exposed to the Wenchuan earthquake to t...

Disaster preparedness is an essential way to improve community resilience. This study examines the linkage between Chinese villagers’ adoption of disaster preparedness activities and their perception of community resilience, measured by the Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit. Survey data from three villages with different landscapes (loess pl...

Background: The increasing frequency and magnitude of disasters call for enhancing the preparation of nurses with advanced knowledge and skills in disaster management. Objectives: With the release in December 2019 of the updated version 2.0 of the ICN's Core Competencies in Disaster Nursing (ICN CCDN V2.0), the aims of this study were to examine...

Background: Adolescent males are often considered as less medically vulnerable, resulting in less community healthcare but stronger influences of environmental awareness (preparedness and knowledge) on self-preventive strategies of air pollution risk. However, socio-environmental experiences can alter subjective understandings of the environment, t...

Background Despite the development in disaster nursing and the increasing research and related publications, little efforts have been directed to map the global development and trends of disaster nursing literature, identify gaps and guide future research directions in the field. Objectives To generate a comprehensive picture of publications in di...

Rural communities are generally more vulnerable to natural hazards when compared to urban communities. Moreover, rural communities are diverse and unique in their place, population, agricultural production and culture, which make it challenging for different rural settings to prepare for disasters. There is a little comparison made about the indivi...

Background Nurses play a pivotal role in disaster management across the globe. With the call for all nurses to be prepared for disasters, disaster nursing education and training programs have expanded globally. However, a clear picture of the development and coverage of disaster nursing education and training programs is lacking. Objectives This s...

Aim: This study aims to report on the actions and incident management of the advanced practice nurses of a disaster operation team who were deployed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, and to explore how it illustrated the Core Competencies in Disaster Nursing Version 2.0 delineated by the International Council of Nurses in 2019. Methods: This...

Gentrification and urban development in coastal megacities have increased community resilience due to better physical and socioeconomic conditions to cope with natural hazards. However, perceived community resilience, namely public belief regarding the ability of society to recover, is under-researched. In particular, specific pathways between info...

Background: Despite larger health burdens attributed to cold than heat, few studies have examined personal cold protection behaviours (PCPB). This study examined PCPB during cold waves and identified the associated factors in a subtropical city for those without central heating system. Methods: A cohort telephone survey was conducted in Hong Kong d...

The severity, intensity, and frequency of extreme storm events facing coastal areas are increasing due to climate change and urban sprawl. Migrant populations are particularly vulnerable in extreme storm events due to resource deficits, a lack of preparedness, and social isolation. Empirical knowledge is needed to help develop comprehensive guideli...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between the civic mission of schools and students on participation in school governance through an empirical study. It articulates the importance of school mission on nurturing citizenship of high school students. Design/methodology/approach The research used a mixed method with que...

In efforts to address government-identified gaps between top-down policies and local-level preparedness approaches, a team from China, the UK and the US undertook a transdisciplinary, participatory project to develop an earthquake scenario for two administrative districts of Weinan, Shaanxi province, located east of Xi'an. We designed the scenario...

Objective This study aims to examine the patterns and socio-demographic predictors of health and environmental co-benefit behaviours that support climate change mitigation in a densely populated Asian metropolis—Hong Kong. Methods A population-based, stratified and cross-sectional random digit dialling telephone survey study was conducted between...

Abridged version of climate change, extreme temperatures and health questionnaire. (PDF)

Health and disaster risk reduction are important and necessary components in building a smart city, especially when climate change may increase the frequency of extreme temperatures and the health risks of urban dwellers. However, limited knowledge is available about the best way to disseminate weather warnings and health protection information. Th...

Study/Objective To explore the relationship between water security, disaster risk and preparedness among an ethnic minority rural community in China. Background Increased rainfall variability and water-related disasters can be expected due to climate change. Among the resource-poor in China, these water-related disasters will increasingly affect p...

Study/Objective To review research trends and evidence in the field of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (H-EDRM), and to provide recommendations for the field moving forward. Background Health is recognized as an outcome and a goal of disaster risk reduction activities, which is acknowledged in international agreements such as the Int...

Study/Objective To reveal the pattern of student engagement (the amount of time a student logged in) in Public Health Principles in Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (PHPID) online course, and to examine whether the pattern is associated with the course outcome (the probability of certificate attainment). Background Student enrollment in...

Study/Objective To reveal the spatial and temporal pattern of student enrollment in the Public Health Principles in Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (PHPID), Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), and to examine the degree to which socio-demographic variables can predict the course achievement. Background The first cohort of the PHPID online...

Study/Objective This study is primarily aimed to investigate the relationship among different types of household injuries with socio-demographic attributes in Hong Kong (an urban Chinese setting). Background Injury is a major global disease burden for the 21 st century. However, there is little research about unintentional household injury, especi...

Drawing on rural migrants’ experiences and narratives collected through in-depth fieldwork in the Pearl River Delta in 2008–2009, we discovered that rural women are more successful than men in securing factory employment. We looked at the ways in which the employment of rural migrants in South China’s factories was an outcome of the interweaving of...

This article is a report on part of a larger research on student participation in school governance in the Hong Kong context. It addresses the question ‘Is the Student Union a tokenism of student participation in school governance in the context of Hong Kong?’. The research adopts a mixed methodology comprising both quantitative and qualitative met...

Most previous studies conclude that rural women's migration is motivated to maximize their household economic income and their migration is largely decided by their parents or husbands. But the picture of rural women's migration in China is more complicated. This paper aims to explore why rural women in China migrate to cities to seek off-farm empl...