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Understanding the Exposome
The Places
’Places’ refer to where social interactions’ occur, to locations children engage in social interactions and activities. Children’s experiences of places create emotional responses and attachment to those places. They are – like interpersonal relationships – affective. Feelings, moods, and emotions affect the bonds formed with places in a person’s life and how they evaluate those places (e.g. positively, negatively). Places have meanings for an individual within the conceptual framework of the Social Exposome. Figure xy gives an overview of places relevant for children.

Places | Examples |
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Home | Home environment(s); room(s); shared spaces |
Places for learning
and working | Kindergarten; school; university; Office; factory; store; farm |
Digital world | Virtual places in digital world (i.e. where games are set; chat rooms; social media) |
Places for leisure time | Friends’ homes; museums; movie theatres; music halls; sports fields; community centers |
Neighborhood
Physical environment | Natural environment e.g. air; climate; soil; water
Built environment Buildings (e.g. housing); transportation (e.g. street connectivity); open spaces (e.g. blue spaces; green spaces i.e. parks) |
Neighborhood
Social environment | Economic domain Health-relevant economic resources e.g. supermarkets; commercial outlets
Institutional domain Schools; clinics; educational institutions; professional bodies; religious facilities; municipal services (policing; sanitation) |
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