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Dr. Tingzhong Yang

Professor and Director

Present

School of Medicine, Zhejiang University

Hangzhou 310058

China

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Tingzhong Yang is Professor and Director of the Research Center for Tobacco Control at Zhejiang University and the Research Center for Digital Health Theory and Management at the National Health Big Data Institute, Zhejiang University. He served as an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) on tobacco-control policies and programs for health professions students and as an expert involved in updating the chronic respiratory diseases section of the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2013–2020. He was invited to serve as an Academician of the Russian Academy of Social and Fundamental Sciences and also served as an external faculty affiliate of the Injury Control Research Center at West Virginia University, USA.

Dr. Yang’s research focuses on social and behavioral health sciences, particularly tobacco control, mental stress, health behavior, and population health. He has led tobacco-control advocacy and capacity-building projects covering all provinces of China and more than 72 cities and has published more than 140 international peer-reviewed papers (ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8234-0938). His tobacco-control research has been reported by the WHO, selected as a Research Highlight of Zhejiang University during its 120th anniversary, and featured in Nature under the title “Using Cultural Understanding to Stub Out Killer Habit.”

A major focus of his work is the development of social and behavioral health theories grounded in social and cultural contexts. He has proposed a number of theoretical models, including the Theory of Effective and Reasoned Action, Dual-Belief Behavior Theory, Uncertainty Belief Behavior Theory, Social Structure–Behavior Theory and its cross-level models, and theories of digital health behavior. His research on mental stress has examined its social mechanisms, including situational uncertainty stress, and he developed the Chinese Perceived Stress Scale (CPSS), the Uncertainty Stress Scale, and a culturally grounded stress-management model.

Dr. Yang has authored and edited several books on health behavior, tobacco control, and mental stress. He previously served as Asian Editor of the American Journal of Health Behavior and currently serves as an Editor of the Global Journal of Social Sciences Studies.

  • Social and Behavior Science
  • Tobacco Control
  • Mental Stress
  • Yang T, Abdullah AS, Rockett IR,Li M, Zhou Y, Ma J, Zheng Z, Zhang Y, Wang L. Assessment of Tobacco Control Advocacy Behavioral Capacity among Students at Schools of Public Health in China. Tobacco Control, 2011; 20:20-25.
  • Yang T, Shiffman S, Rockett IR,Cui X, Cao R. Nicotine dependence among Chinese city dwellers: a population-based cross-sectional study. Nicotine Tob Res, 2011; 13(17):556-564.
  • Yang T, Xu X, Rockett IR,Guo W, Zhou H. Effects of household, workplace, and public place smoking restrictions on smoking cessation. Health & Place, 2011;17:956-960.
  • Yang T, Rockett IRH, Li M, Xu X, Gu Y. Tobacco advertising, environmental smoking bans, and smoking in Chinese urban areas. Drug and Alcohol dependence, 2012;124:121-127.
  • Yang X, Kelly BC,Yang T*. The influence of self-exempting beliefs and social networks on daily smoking: A mediation relationship explored. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2014, 28(3):921-927.
  • Yang T, Barnett R, Rockett IR, Yang XY, Wu D, Zheng W & Li L. The impact of regional economic reliance on the tobacco industry on current smoking in China. Health & place,2015; 33, 159-171.
  • Yang T, Yu L, Bottorff J L, Wu D, Jiang S, Peng S Young K J. Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) in Tobacco Control in China. American journal of health behavior, 2015; 39(5): 732-741.
  • Yang X Y, Kell BC, & Yang T*. Together we have fun: native?place networks and sexual risk behaviours among Chinese male rural?urban migrants. 2015; Sociology of Health & Illness.
  • Yang T, Barnett R, Jiang S, Yu L, Xian H, Ying J Zheng, W. Gender balance and its impact on male and female smoking rates in Chinese cities. 2016; Social Science & Medicine.
  • Yang T, Barnett R, Peng S, et al. Individual and regional factors affecting stress and problem alcohol use: a representative nationwide study of China. Health & place, 2018, 51: 19-27.
  • Yang X Y, Yang T*. Nativity homogeneity in social networks and prostitution patronage among male migrant laborers. AIDS and Behavior, 2019, 23(5): 1339-1351.
  • Jiang S, Yang T*, Bullen C, et al. Real-world unassisted quit success and related contextual factors: a population-based study of Chinese male smokers. Tobacco Control, 2020.
  • Yang X Y, Kelly B, Yang T*. Peer Association and Routine Activities in Sex Worker Patronage among Male Migrant Workers. Deviant Behavior, 2020: 1-18.
  • Peng S, Yang X Y, Yang T*, et al. Uncertainty stress, and its impact on disease fear and prevention behavior during the COVID-19 epidemic in China: A panel study. American Journal of Health Behavior, 2021, 45(2): 334-341.
  • Yang T, Peng S, Wu D, et al. Association of smoking with poor health-related quality of life among health-profession students in China: A 31-university multilevel, multivariable analysis[J]. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2022, 20(November): 1-12.
  • Yang T., Zhang W, Peng S.Constructing and Testing for Validation of Social Theory for Stress. Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Sciences), 2022,52(10):61-68.
  • Hoe C, Cohen J E, Yang T*, et al. Association of cigarette production and tobacco retailer density on secondhand smoke exposure in urban China. Tobacco control, 2022, 31(e2): e118-e125.
  • Cui Y, Peng S, Czaplicki L, Yang T*. Protecting minors from tobacco products: public interest litigation enables enforcement in China. Tobacco control, 2022.
  • Pei T, Yang T*. Changing Behaviour: Blindness to Risk and a Critique of Tobacco Control Policy in China?A Qualitative Study. Children, 2022, 9(9): 1412.
  • Yang T. Research on Constructing of Cross-level Theory Between Individual Behavior Cognition and Social Influence. Social Science Research Frontiers, 2023, 2(1): 33.
  • Peng S, Yang T*, Zhang W, et al. Contextual influences on deliberate self-harm among Chinese university undergraduates: A representative nationwide study. Journal of affective disorders, 2023, 335: 371-376.
  • Peng S, Yang T*, Zhang W, et al. Temporal changes in mental response and prevention patterns, and their impact from uncertainty stress during the transition in China from the COVID-19 epidemic to sporadic infection. Heliyon, 2023, 9(8).
  • Yang T, Wu D. Behavioral and Mental Health Problems in Children. Children. 2023; 10(11):1820.
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