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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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
What are relevant indicators for internal exposome?
Katja publications Ethical implications of Exposome research (Sammie)
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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
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
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
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
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
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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Apr 8, 20242 min read
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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Apr 8, 20242 min read
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