Our Guidebook

 What is the exposome? – Explore the concept of the exposome and the exposures it includes.

Materials and Methods - Learn about how we studied the effects of exposures on the outcomes and the methods applied in the Equal-Life project. 

• Mental Health and Cognitive Development Definitions – Access definitions of essential terms related to children’s mental health and cognitive development. 

• The Role of the Life Course – Explore how experiences and exposures accumulate throughout childhood to shape long-term mental health and developmental outcomes.

• The Physical domain of the exposome – Discover the physical environmental factors, like air and noise pollution, and greenspace, explored in Equal-Life.

• The Social domain of the exposome – Explore social environmental factors, like family dynamics, community support, economic and cultural influences, that affect children's mental health and development.

• The Internal domain of the exposome – Learn about factors inside the body explored in the project (like metabolism, proteomics).

• The Role of Mediators – Find out about the mediators studied in Equal-Life that help explain the connections between environmental exposures and children's mental health and cognitive outcomes.

• Cumulative effects– Examine how cumulative effects of various exposures might influence long-term mental health/well-being and cognitive development in children     

Policy Actions from Equal-Life – Access policy actions and recommendations derived from Equal-Life results

Glossary – The full list of terminology and its description used within the Equal-Life project.