Professional career

◎Professional Experiences

Assistant Research Fellow, Center for Health Risk Assessment and Policy, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University(2005.02-2002.07).
Assistant Professor, Department of Healthcare Management,Yuanpei Institute of Science and Technology.(2005.08-2006.07)
Assistant Professor, Department of Healthcare Management, Yuanpei University.(2006.08-2011.07)
Assistant Professor, Center for General Education, National Defense Medical Center (2011.08-present)
◎Research Interests

Psychoactive substance use, Health inequalities, Gender health

◎Research Activities & Accomplishments
Lifecourse and Social Context Influence on Areca Quid Chewing Behavior: In-Depth Interviews With Taxi Drivers (NSC 95-2412-H-264-001), National Science Council.
Views of Physicians and Insomnia Patients on Hypnotics and Sedatives : A Qualitative Study( NSC 96-2412-H-264-001-MY2), National Science Council.
The medicialization of Sleep Medicine(NSC98-2410-H-264-017-MY2) , National Science Council.
How the Internet Affects Patients' Experience of Cancer: the Examples of Breast Cancer Survivors( NSC 100-2410-H-016-004-MY2), National Science Council.

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◎Honors and Awards

Honorary member of the Society by The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society at National Taiwan University, 2004.



◎Selected Publications



Shu-Chen Kuo, Chih-Yin Lew-Ting, Yi-Chun Chen “Lay perspectives of health education information: in-depth interview with areca quid chewing taxi drivers.”, Taiwan Journal of Public Health. 2005; 24(3):239-253. （TSSCI）



Yi-Chun Chen, Chih-Yin Lew-Ting, Yi-Hung Liu, Shu-Chen Kuo “The effects of a workplace breastfeeding-friendly policy on female employees breastfeeding behavior .”, Taiwan Journal of Public Health. 2005; 24(4):315-324. （TSSCI）



Shu-Chen Kuo, Chih-Yin Lew-Ting “Areca quid chewing customers in a teashop: a contextual analysis of areca quid chewing.”, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies. 2006; 63:143-208.(TSSCI)



Chen, Yi-Chun, Chie, Wei-Chu, Kuo, Shu-Chen, Lin, Yu-Hsuan, Lin, Shio-Jean, Chen, Pau-Chung “The association between infant feeding pattern and mother's quality of life in Taiwan,”, Quality of Life Research, 2007, 10, pp. 1281-1288.(SCI)



Shu-Chen Kuo, Chih-Yin Lew-Ting “The health lifestyles of areca quid-chewing taxi drivers─an exploratory study from the viewpoint of social context.”, Taiwan Journal of Public Health. 2008; 27(1):67-80.(TSSCI)



Shu-Chen Kuo”On the Lifecourse of the formation of health behavior: the example of areca quid chewing behavior of taxi drivers.”, Taiwan Journal of Public Health. 2008; 27(5)385-398.(TSSCI)

Shu-Chen Kuo, Yi-Chun Chen “Insomnia and work Stress: in-depth interviews with hypnotic-taking nursing staff.”, Taiwan Journal of Public Health. 2010; 29(2)131-144.(TSSCI)



Li SC, Kuo SC, Hsu YY, Lin SJ, Chen PC, Chen YC. Effect of breastfeeding duration on infant growth until 18 months of age: a national birth cohort study. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, 2010, 2(4):165-172.



Yang HH, Kuo SC, Lai YH, Yang HJ, Yu JC. A regression model of social capital and self-evaluated health. International Journal of Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences. 2011, 5(3):652-659. （EI）



Shu-Chen Kuo, Wen-Hsiang Wu, Meng-Hsien Chuang, Kua-Hsin Peng, Chiu-Chin Huang “Severe Complicated Influenza Case Surveillance.” The Journal of Grey System. 2012, 3(SCI, Accepted)