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Hong Kong has experienced a steady decline in mortality during the past several decades, and Hong Kong now life expectancy are among the highest in the world. Given the very low mortality already achieved, is there much more room for further improvement in Hong Kong's mortality decline? This paper examined how age-specific mortality by sex in Hong Kong has changed over time, and applied the Lee–Carter model to mortality projections in Hong Kong for next 50 years. When using Lee–Carter model, we dealt with the possible divergence in mortality projection for males and females over time, and take a shorter projection base period to meet the assumption of the parameters describing the age pattern of mortality decline being invariant. If we compare the results with the most recent official forecasts, projections on mortality decline in this paper are more optimistic than the official forecasts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) among Chinese adolescent girls in Hong Kong. We also attempted to provide normative data for the EDI among 12- to 18-year-old Chinese girls in Hong Kong. Two thousand two hundred and fifty-six high school girls between the age of 12 and 18 years participated in this study. Subjects completed the questionnaire package anonymously at their schools. Findings indicate that the internal consistency estimates for the eight EDI scales were in the acceptable range, with alpha ranging from 0.68 for Perfectionism to 0.87 for Body Dissatisfaction. With the exception of a few items, the item-total correlations were also acceptable for the eight scales. Findings of the principal components analysis support the original eight clinically derived EDI constructs. Group comparison analyses reveal significant age differences and race differences in several EDI scales. EDI percentile scores are presented for girls 12–13 and 14–18 years of age in the present study. This study provides further empirical support to the transcultural validity of the EDI. It also highlights the importance of establishing age- and race-specific norms for the inventory. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]