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List of works by Hung Chak Ho

A Spatial Framework to Map Heat Health Risks at Multiple Scales

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A comparison of urban heat islands mapped using skin temperature, air temperature, and apparent temperature (Humidex), for the greater Vancouver area

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Association between awareness of vulnerability and disaster preparedness in an infrastructure-resilient city: a population-based study

scientific article published in 2022

Characterizing prolonged heat effects on mortality in a sub-tropical high-density city, Hong Kong.

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Characterizing spatiotemporal dynamics of anthropogenic heat fluxes: A 20-year case study in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China

scientific article published on 30 March 2019

Community planning for a “healthy built environment” via a human-environment nexus? A multifactorial assessment of environmental characteristics and age-specific stroke mortality in Hong Kong

scientific article published in 2022

Delineation of Spatial Variability in the Temperature-Mortality Relationship on Extremely Hot Days in Greater Vancouver, Canada

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Development of the Adjusted Wind Chill Equivalent Temperature (AWCET) for cold mortality assessment across a subtropical city: validation and comparison with a spatially-controlled time-stratified approach

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Effects of Urban Green Space on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Biomarkers in Chinese Adults: Panel Study Using Digital Tracking Devices

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Evaluation of machine learning techniques with multiple remote sensing datasets in estimating monthly concentrations of ground-level PM

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Influences of socioeconomic vulnerability and intra-urban air pollution exposure on short-term mortality during extreme dust events

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Intraday effects of ambient PM1 on emergency department visits in Guangzhou, China: A case-crossover study

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Microscale mobile monitoring of urban air temperature

Mortality risk and burden associated with temperature variability in China, United Kingdom and United States: Comparative analysis of daily and hourly exposure metrics

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Mortality risk of a future heat event across a subtropical city: implications for community planning and health policy

scientific article published in 2020

Neighborhood-based subjective environmental vulnerability index for community health assessment: Development, validation and evaluation

scientific article published on 10 November 2018

Neighbourhood physical environment, intrinsic capacity, and 4-year late-life functional ability trajectories of low-income Chinese older population: A longitudinal study with the parallel process of latent growth curve modelling

scientific article published on 16 June 2021

Population stress: A spatiotemporal analysis of population change and land development at the county level in the contiguous United States, 2001-2011.

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Short-term impacts of ambient fine particulate matter on emergency department visits: Comparative analysis of three exposure metrics

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Spatial Variability of Geriatric Depression Risk in a High-Density City: A Data-Driven Socio-Environmental Vulnerability Mapping Approach.

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Spatial variability of excess mortality during prolonged dust events in a high-density city: a time-stratified spatial regression approach

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Spatiotemporal Prediction of Increasing Winter Perceived Temperature across a Sub-Tropical City for Sustainable Planning and Climate Change Mitigation

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Spatiotemporal analysis of regional socio-economic vulnerability change associated with heat risks in Canada

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Spatiotemporal influence of temperature, air quality, and urban environment on cause-specific mortality during hazy days

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

The Heat Exposure Integrated Deprivation Index (HEIDI): A data-driven approach to quantifying neighborhood risk during extreme hot weather.

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The Impact of the Environment on the Quality of Life and the Mediating Effects of Sleep and Stress

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

The associations between social, built and geophysical environment and age-specific dementia mortality among older adults in a high-density Asian city

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

The half-degree matters for heat-related health impacts under the 1.5 °C and 2 °C warming scenarios: Evidence from ambulance data in Shenzhen, China

scientific article published in 2021

The impact of extremely hot weather events on all-cause mortality in a highly urbanized and densely populated subtropical city: A 10-year time-series study (2006-2015)

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

Urban environmental influences on the temperature-mortality relationship associated mental disorders and cardiorespiratory diseases during normal summer days in a subtropical city

scientific article published on 22 June 2019

Utilizing daily excessive concentration hours to estimate cardiovascular mortality and years of life lost attributable to fine particulate matter in Tehran, Iran

scientific article published on 01 November 2019