{"id":4180,"date":"2021-03-09T13:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2021-03-17T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T23:53:59","slug":"neighbourhoods-and-childrens-development-whats-the-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2021\/03\/09\/neighbourhoods-and-childrens-development-whats-the-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhoods and children\u2019s development: What\u2019s the link?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">new\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">report by MCRI &amp;\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RMIT researchers<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">explores how\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">features\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of the<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">neighbourhood<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0built<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0environment\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">m<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ay influence<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">c<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hildren\u2019s health and development<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Children grow and develop in multiple contexts, including their local neighbourhood.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Certain features of the\u00a0neighbourhood built\u00a0environment, such as walkability, and access to facilities and parks, have been shown to influence health and wellbeing across the lifespan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Global and Australian place-based initiatives advocate for and seek to create healthy neighbourhoods for children and families. Yet often lack the evidence-based data needed to inform the interventions and policy changes required for healthier and fairer child development.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This report explores the links between features of the built environment and early childhood disadvantage to help identify opportunities to improve neighbourhoods and reduce inequities for children and families.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rch-darkgrey\"><a class=\"rch-button rch-large-plain ui-button ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-button-text-only\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/cur.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/aedc-be-report-for-dese_2020_final-submitted-081220-1.pdf\"><span class=\"ui-button-text\">Read the report<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This project is a collaboration between researchers at Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">T<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he Royal Children\u2019s Hospital) and\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University. We acknowledge the people of the\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Woi<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Wurrung and Boon Wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University.<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by MCRI and RMIT researchers explores how features of the built environment may influence children\u2019s health and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23862,8971],"tags":[12031,23841],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childrens-health-and-development-march","category-featured","tag-child-development","tag-community-development"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}