Journal article
Data to Decisions: Methods to Create Neighbourhood Built Environment Indicators Relevant for Early Childhood Development
K Villanueva, A Alderton, C Higgs, H Badland, S Goldfeld
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | MDPI | Published : 2022
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Abstract
Healthy development in the early years lays the foundations for children’s ongoing physical, emotional, and social development. Children develop in multiple contexts, including their local neighbourhood. Neighbourhood-built environment characteristics, such as housing, walkability, traffic exposure, availability of services, facilities, and parks, are associated with a range of health and wellbeing outcomes across the life course, but evidence with early years’ outcomes is still emerging. Data linkage techniques were used to assemble a dataset of spatial (objectively-measured) neighbourhood-built environment (BE) measures linked to participant addresses in the 2015 Australian Early Developme..
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Awarded by Department of Social Services, Australian Government
Funding Acknowledgements
This project is a collaboration between researchers at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (the Royal Children's Hospital) and at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University. We would like to thank our funders and other contributors to the project, including the Social Research Centre and the Australian Institute of Family Studies. The Social Research Centre provided in-kind support to provide the 2015 AEDC data for linkage and reviewed this manuscript. We are grateful to other researchers who have been involved: Jonathan Arundel, Rebecca Roberts, Julianna Rozek, Meredith O'Connor, Claire Boulange, and Billie Giles-Corti.