Ching To Chung

Here’s my infographic for this week: https://snipboard.io/k1iqzR.jpg

My infographic this week:
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Here is my infographic!
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Hello! This is my infographic. (I guess it’s more like a poster than an infographic, I am too used to making posters)

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I would like to talk about point 6, which mentions that a P-value of >0.05 does not necessarily means that no effects are observed. I think this is a very common point or error that a lot of people profoundly believes. Many people treat the p-value as a magical threshold to the point that they think anything below it is a YES and anything above it…[Read more]

1. I am Toby and I am not working now because of my sickness. However, I have done statistics work during my university years. I have mostly used excel, Python, and R.
2. Yes, I have learnt mostly data science, machine learing, and deep learning. However, I am a bit blurry on traditional statistics theory. I have applied statistics in a lot of of…[Read more]

Sex: Male
Age: 21
Place of Residence: Hong Kong

If the above is in a study about DSRCT or Sarcoma, people will already know it’s me because it is so rare and I am the only one in Hong Kong that is 21 years old!

If it is a more general study, then education would also be needed to identify me.

Education:
Current Student of Mahidol Masters of…[Read more]

1. Focus Groups: I would use focus group discussions and gather all individuals who do not use bednets to collectively share their thoughts and experiences. Through group interactions, it may be able to discover the common reasons for not using bednets in the community, such as economic difficulties, or cultural norms.

2. Observation: By…[Read more]

TAM would suggest that the new technology must be at least as useful as the old technology for a potential switch. The Technology Acceptance Model suggests that perceived usefulness is a key factor of individuals’ acceptance and adoption of a new technology. Individuals are more likely to accept and use a technology if they perceive it to be useful.

I think there are several external variables that might influence an individuals’ perceived ease of use or perceived usefulness of a new technology

Age and generational differences: People in different generations have experienced different paradigms of technology. This is an evident phenomenon nowadays. Younger people expects everything to be a…[Read more]

Efficacy is the capacity for producing a desired result or effect in an ideal setting. Does the agent or intervention “work” under ideal, “laboratory” conditions? For example, a medicine could be ready to improve a patient’s symptoms in a perfect environment, where they’re closely monitored in order that they stick perfectly to the prescript…[Read more]

I think occupation is a confounder. Young people, whether they are students or workers, have to commute to school or their workplace every weekday, which guarantees a high frequency of contact. Meanwhile, for older people, many of them may have retired and do not have an occupation. This would mean they would tend to stay home on weekdays. This…[Read more]

Infant Mortality Rate is the proportion of infant deaths under one year old per 1000 live births.

It is calculated by (**the number of deaths in the first year of life)/(the number of live births)*1000**

It is useful for comparing the quality of health systems, especially among less developed countries. If there is high IFR, it may mean that the…[Read more]

Sorry for the late reply of this discussion. I had complications from my surgery and was incapacitated for a while.

I would like to speak from the experience of Hong Kong and how my university handled COVID.

Privacy and transparency: An app is enforced on all citizens to track their locations by adopting the policy of “Vaccine Passport”. The…[Read more]

Hong Kong as a developed city has been doing fairly well in terms of approaching Universal Health Coverage, but it certainly does not have a fully implemented UHC
system.
Hong Kong has a fairly mature healthcare system with public and hospitals covering the vicinity of pretty much every district, be it urban or rural. It follows a mixed healthcare…[Read more]

I would definitely be thinking of data sharing if I am in charge of the data, given that the participants know about the data sharing and agree, and that the desensitivization procedures are properly done. As mentioned in the lecture, data sharing contributes a lot to science in general and is usually beneficial to both parties.

For example, if I…[Read more]

In my opinion, the condition of the health informatics workforce in Hong Kong is terrible. Hong Kong is extremely slow in integrating IT into its health functions. The health informatics workforce is mainly concentrated in the Centre of Health Protection and the Department of Health, which are governmental bodies doing public health, epidemiology,…[Read more]

In Hong Kong, the wide-spread transition and usage of EMR only began in 2016 through a governmental intiative. The advantages of using EMR is immediately obvious after the city-wide adoption. When traditional paper records were used, it was extremely difficult to trace a patient’s medical history when the patient uses different medical f…[Read more]

**Missing Data**

One of the ways that I think could solve missing data is to educate and train healthcare staff to chart and document things more completely. As mentioned in the paper, one of the reasons that there is missing data is that healthcare professionals don’t think documenting certain items in the EMR is useful. If we train staff to u…[Read more]

I do agree with the four points proposed in the paper.

First is to convene key stakeholders in the health system, including policy makers, health professionals, and managers, to seek agreement on the scale and nature of corruption in each health system. While this may seem obvious, this is indeed very important. In the health system where…[Read more]