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Why in Equal Life we are looking at self-regulation and coping?
In the Equal-Life project, we're looking at self-regulation and coping as possible ways that the environment (exposome) might affect...
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May 21, 20241 min read
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What is stress?
Stress and restoration are crucial factors influencing cognitive development and mental health in children. Stress is a response to...
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May 21, 20241 min read
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Why is sleep important?
For teenagers, not getting enough sleep is linked to mental health issues, poor school performance, and even depression. Good sleep is...
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May 21, 20241 min read
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How can we measure sleep?
We can look at sleep in different ways: how much we sleep, the pattern of our sleep, and how well we sleep. We can measure sleep through...
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May 21, 20241 min read
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What is sleep?
Sleep is crucial for our bodies and minds. While we don't fully understand all the details, we know it helps us recover and be alert...
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May 21, 20241 min read
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How does the cumulative effect of various exposures influence long-term health and well-being in children?
The cumulative effect can be explained by examining how the various exposures and experiences a child encounters throughout their...
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May 19, 20241 min read
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How do social practices, exposures, and environmental factors influence child development and evolve in complexity throughout the life course?
The life course highlights the need to consider child development as a crucial aspect in the articulation of social practices and...
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May 19, 20241 min read
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How do critical periods of child development influence the integration of vulnerability, susceptibility, and equity into the child perspective of the exposome?
To propose and adopt a child perspective to the exposome, we articulate the concepts of vulnerability, including the notions of...
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May 19, 20241 min read
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What is Cognitive Development in Equal-Life?
Cognition is defined as “the mental action or process of acquiring information and understanding through thought, experience, and the...
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May 19, 20241 min read
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What is Mental Health and Well-Being in Equal-Life?
Within Equal-Life, mental health is defined as the presence of psychological or psychiatric illness or psychological ill health...
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May 19, 20241 min read
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What are relevant indicators for internal exposome?
Katja publications Ethical implications of Exposome research (Sammie)
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May 10, 20241 min read
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What is internal exposome?
The internal exposome can be described as all internal processes in the body that regulate its functioning and react to external and...
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May 10, 20241 min read
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What are relevant indicators for social exposome?
Actors: family, peers, educational staff (in kindergardens, schools, etc.) Places: in comparison to the physical characteristics of...
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What are relevant indicators for physical exposome?
1. The outdoor environmental quality: e.g. noise and sound quality, air quality, housing practices. 2. The indoor environmental quality:...
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May 10, 20241 min read
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What is physical exposome?
In the context of Equal-Life, the external exposome refers to an individual's environmental exposures influenced by others and natural...
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May 10, 20241 min read
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How does the Equal-Life project reach this goal?
The Equal-Life project brings together eleven cohorts and several (pre)school studies from seven different countries and contain...
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May 10, 20241 min read
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What is the overall aim of Equal-Life?
The Equal-Life project is about the effect of early physical and social exposure on children’s mental health and cognitive development...
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May 10, 20241 min read
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Stress and Restoration definitions
Stress and restoration are assumed to play a fundamental role in the proposed mechanisms underlying the association between exposures and...
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How the Cognitive development is defined?
Cognition is defined as “the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the...
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