Date: 3 - 9 - 2020 

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: public health, health, outbreak of infectious diseases, prevention and treatment of diseases, social distance,  social activities 

Stakeholders: Government, medical service providers, shop keepers, patients, general public

The Issue (Controversial Points):

How effective is avoidance of social activities in order to minimize the spread of coronavirus?

What should the Hong Kong government do in controlling the outbreak of coronavirus?

Source: South China Morning Post

Date: 3 - 9 - 2020 

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: public health, health, outbreak of infectious diseases, prevention and treatment of diseases, social distance,  social activities 

Stakeholders: Government, medical service providers, shop keepers, patients, general public

The Issue (Controversial Points):

How effective is avoidance of social activities in order to minimize the spread of coronavirus?

What should the Hong Kong government do in controlling the outbreak of coronavirus?

Date: 31-08-2020

LS Modules: M5 Public Health, M2 Hong Kong Today

LS Concepts: Public Health, Coronavirus, Virus Tests, Infectious Disease Prevention

Stakeholders: The Government, Hong Kong Citizens, Patients, Medical Personnel

What should the Government do to encourage citizens to take virus tests?

What more should be done to relieve the burden of the citizens caused by the pandemic?

Source: CARTOONSTOCK

Date: 21 May 2020

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: Public health, coronavirus, pandemic, social distance

Stakeholders: The government, citizens, patients, medical personnel

- How to raise the awareness of the general public facing the Coronavirus?

- What should the government do to control the Coronavirus in Hong Kong effectively?

Date: 18 - 9 - 2020

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: public healthcare system, outbreak of infectious diseases (e.g. COVID-19), prevention and treatment of diseases

Stakeholders: Government, general public

The Issue (Controversial Points):

Should the certificate of passing COVID-19 test be compulsory for employees?

What should the Hong Kong government do in controlling the outbreak of COVID-19?

 

Date: 18 - 9 - 2020 

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M4 Globalization, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: Outbreak of coronavirus disease, Physical health, Mental health, Gini Coefficient, The wealth and poor gap, GDP, economic development

Stakeholders: Government, General public, large entreprises, small and medium entreprises, and employees. 

The Issue (Controversial Points):

What should the government and citizens do to stimulate the economy?

What are the effects of the economic recession in Hong Kong? 

Source: South China Morning Post

Date: 27 - 3 - 2020 

LS modules: M1 Personal Development and Interpersonal Relationships, M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: Out break of coronavirus disease, E-learning, Face-to-face learning, Flexibility and efficiency of home learning, Peer relationship, Physical health, Mental health, Social distance, Gini Coefficient, The wealth and poor gap

Stakeholders: Government, Students, Parents, General public, Schools

The Issue (Controversial Points):

How would the adolescents' self esteem affected by the gap bwteen poor and rich?

How  would the physical health of those students be affected by facing electrical devices for a long time?

What should the Hong Kong government do in controlling the outbreak of coronavius so that schools can have face-to-face teaching again?

What should the government do to assist those students having econmic burden?

Source: South China Morning Post

Date: 27 - 8 - 2020 

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: outbreak of infectious diseases (COVID-19), prevention and treatment of diseases

Stakeholders: Government, medical personnel, patients, general public

The Issue (Controversial Points):

How to solve the unkown infection source problem in Hong Kong?

What should the Hong Kong government do in controlling the outbreak of COVID-19?

How should the Kwai Tsing Container be careful of ?

Date: 9/5/2020

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: outbreak of infectious diseases, prevention and treatment of diseases, shortage in resources

Stakeholders: government, medical personnel, citizens, store owners

How to solve the shortage in disease preventative resources in Hong Kong？

What should the Hong Kong government do in stabilizing citizens’ anxious?

Date: 19-6-2020

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: outbreak of infectious diseases(coronavirus), prevention of disease, social distancing

Stakeholders: Government, restaurant owners, workers, costumers, general public

The Issue (Controversial Points):

What are the impacts of limitation of dine-in services in restaurants?

How could the government alleviate the financial burden of restaurant owners?

Date: 08 - 04 - 2020

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: manpower shortage, outbreak of infectious diseases (Covid-19), prevention and treatment of diseases(social distancing), unemployment rate

Stakeholders: Government, general public, shops owner, people finding jobs

The Issue (Controversial Points):

What should the government do to solve the unemployment problem?

How does the infectious diseases Covid-19 affect people's living standard?

Source: U.S. News & World Report

Date: 17-8-2020

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: outbreak of infectious diseases(COVID-19),Unemployment,healthcare,GDP,living standard of general public ,disparity between the rich and the poor

Stakeholders: The Government,general public,businessmen,enterprises,employers and employees

The Issue (Controversial Points):

How does inflections diseases affect economy and people's lives?

Source: https://ls.chiculture.org.hk/tc/hot-topics/111
Date: 7 - 4 - 2020
LS module(s):  M3 Modern China, M5 Public Health
LS concepts: public healthcare system, prevention and treatment of diseases, food safety, implementation of antibiotics
Stakeholders: Government, medical service providers, patients, food providers, the general public
The Issue (Controversial Points): 

- How should the government regulate the publish and implementation of antibiotics. 

- How should the government promote the correct use of antibiotics.

- What is the consequences of using antibiotics inappropriately.

Source: http://wordsandimagesportfolio.weebly.com/week2.html

 Date: 17/01/2013

 LS module(s): M3 Modern China , M5 Public Health

 LS concepts: pollution problem(e.g. air pollution) , treatment of pollution , health problems , industrial development of China

 Stakeholders: Government , industries , factories , general public

 The Issue (Controversial Points):

Source: South China Morning Post

Date: 3 Apr 2020

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: The Epidemic, public health, alcohol bans

Stakeholders: The government, catering industry, furloughed workers, citizens

• Is the alcohol ban effective enough to alleviate the outbreak of COVID-19?

•What should the government do to assist the industry in this period instead of subsidizing?

•How to solve the low awareness of citizens facing this epidemic?

Source: https://www.indianlink.com.au/8-bad-food-habits/
Date: 2-7-2013
LS module(s): M5 Public Health
LS concepts: Bad eating habits , lifestyle diseases
Stakeholders: General public , students, parents
The Issue (Controversial Points):
How to change the bad eating habit of hong kong people?
What should the restaurant do in order to provide a healthy meal to the public?

Source: SCMP https://www.scmp.com/photos/harrys-view?page=15
Date: 1st April, 2020
LS modules: M5 Public Health
LS concepts: Public Health, Health risk
Stakeholders: government, bar owners, Hong Kong citizens
The Issue(Controversial Points):

Source: chinadaily.com.cn
Date: 2020-3-11
LS module(s):  M5 Public health, M4 globalisation
LS concepts: infectious disease, epidemic diseace, internation cooperation, globalisation, spreading of the disease
Stakeholders: the organisation which helping to cotrolling public health, the government of each states, WHO,  the organisation which providing medical services
The Issue (Controversial Points):

what can the developed countries help the developing countries when there is an outbreak of infectious disease in the developing countries?

what should the WHO do when there is an outbreak of disease in one state?

what should the country do when there is an outbreak of disease in their state?

what should the regional government do when there is an outbreak of disease?

what is the conflict of interest of the helping countries and the helped countries?

what are the usefulness and limitation of the internation cooperation controlling the infectious disease?

what is the socio-economic costs brought by the infectious disease in the world?

why do the spreading of infectious disease happened under globalisation?

Source: https://www.manifestias.com/2019/09/17/e-cigarettes/

Date: 17- 9- 2019
LS module(s):  M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health
LS concepts: public healthcare system, health risk, policy control
Stakeholders: Government, e-cigarettes sellors, e-cigarettes smokers, general public
The Issue (Controversial Points):

Should the government ban e-cigarettes?

Should the government ban traditional cigarettes instead of e-cigarettes?

Source:https://www.scmp.com/photos/comment/harrys-view/3048487/harrys-view-february-2020?page=15#&gid=1&pid=15
 Date: January 31,2020

LS Module(s): M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS Concepts: Quality of Life, Health Risk, Healthcare System

Stakeholders: Government, Hong Kong citizens

The Issue ( Controversial Points):
 Should the Government allow the Hong Kongers stranded in other countries to return to Hong Kong?
 Do you think electronic tags are enough for forcing flight riskers to quarantine themselves?

Source: http://thejacksonpress.org/?p=72011

Date: 14-9-2017
LS module(s):   M5 Public Health
LS concepts: public healthcare system, treatment of diseases, abuse of healthcare service
Stakeholders: Government, patients, general public
The Issue (Controversial Points):
How to solve people from abusing of healthcare services because of buying health insurance in Hong Kong?
What should the Hong Kong government do to ensure people can claim back their money after health treatment or surgery?

Source: https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoonview.asp?catref=kscn1085

Date: 20 Dec 2013

LS Module: M5 Public Health, M6 Energy Technology and the Environment

LS Concepts: Global warming, climate change, obesity problem, green polices

Stakeholders: People who have obesity, people who is affected by the global warming

Source: SCMP(Harry's View)

Date: 17th Feburary, 2020

LS module(s): M5 public health M4 Globalization

LS concepts: out break of coronavirus, shortage of face masks, daily supplies out of stock, globalization, excessive demand of masks and medical aid

Stakeholders: Government, general public, medical stuffs, medical aid suppliers, manufacturers 

What should the government do to ensure the excessive demand of face masks?

What should  the government do to deal with the problem of imbalance of resources that some people may store up boxes of masks but some even cannot have a mask?

is there should be a policy that first-line medical stuffs have the first priority using the masks and medical aid during the out break of diseases?

Date: 23 July 2015

LS modules: M2 Hong Kong Today, M5 Public Health

LS concepts: Quality of life, doctor-population ratio, life expectancy

Stakeholders: Government, patients, citizens

1.      How should the government do to alleviate the shortage of hospital bed?

2.      How should the government do to improve the quality of life on medical services? 

Source: South China Morning Post
Date: 18 / 2 / 2020
LS module(s): M5 Public Health , M4 Globalization
LS concepts: Out break of coronavirus disease, globalization, shortage of healthcare products, policy to prevent panic-buying, excess demand for healthcare products
Stakeholders: Government, toilet paper suppliers and manufacturers, general public
The Issue (Controversial Points):

What should the government do to prevent people scramble for the healthcare products?

What should the government do to prevent crimes other than only focusing on the disease?
 

Source: https://www.chappatte.com/en/images/fighting-the-covid-19/
Date: 03 - March - 2020
LS module(s):  M2 Hong Kong Today, M4 Globalization, M5 Public Health
LS concepts:  Outbreak of coronavirus disease(COVID-19), economy, globalization,
Stakeholders: Government, central banks in many countries, global markets, business company, general public
The Issue (Controversial Points):

Source: Radio Free Asia
Date: 29 - 10 - 2019
LS module(s):  M2 Hong Kong Today, M3 Modern China
LS concepts: Universal Sufferage, Election Freedom, One people one vote, one country two system, sense of belongings, core value of Hong Kong
Stakeholders: Hong Kong Government, general public
The Issue (Controversial Points):
Should Hong Kong have one people one vote? 

Should everyone have a freedom to vote?

Under the "Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong", should every Hong Kong people have a right to elect the Chief Exeutive of Hong Kong?

Does everyone want full democracy?

Who should the Hong Kong government listen to? The CPC government? or the voice of Hong Kong people?

Whether the elections results are default?

Do the Hong Kongers have other options in the election of Chief Exeutive?