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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.

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Places
Examples
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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