Hung Wong

TL;DR: The authors found that disturbing events experienced by social work students in their fieldwork were a catalyst to their reflective process, and their undue concern with knowledge and skills application within a circumscribed knowledge frame suggests the dominant influence of scientism and competence-based practice in social work, where learning outcomes and instrumental and technical reasoning are highly emphasized.

TL;DR: The results indicate that fragmented health insurance schemes generate inequitable health care utilization and health outcomes for the elderly in China, which re-emphasizes the importance of reforming health insurance systems based on their health outcome rather than entitlement.

TL;DR: Deprivation of non-monetary resources has an independent effect on general health above and beyond the effect of income poverty, and policies should move beyond endowment and take into account the multidimensionality of poverty in order to address the problem of health inequality.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic study of low-income Pakistani families in Hong Kong, offering narrated accounts from participants regarding the impact of racial discrimination on their lives, metaphorically signified in the idiomatic term Ah Cha to denote people of North Indian heritage.

TL;DR: Unlike the poverty in the developing world which is more likely associated with undevelopment or underdevelopment of industrial capitalism, the new poverty in advanced cities is induced by the deve...