Health Discourses from Below: Exploring a Citizen Self-Health Approach to Sustainable Care in Hong Kong

This project adopts a critical health-humanities theoretical approach to echo the government’s approach to examine this sphere of “citizen self-health” that is shaping HK residents’ need for a pragmatic, preventative, and self-competent approach to wellbeing (physical, mental, community-oriented). The multidisciplinary team using quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods will be deployed to conduct the study in three work packages. By analyzing the complexity of the citizen self-health discourses, we seek to leverage its positive contributions, address the risks, and align it with government public health strategies. Ultimately, this research aims to enhance HK’s preparedness for future public health crises from a critical humanistic and multicultural perspective.