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Understanding the Influence of Community-Level Determinants on Children’s Social and Emotional Well-Being: A Systems Science and Participatory Approach Poon, Brenda T.; Atchison, Chris, 1971-; Kwan, Amanda

Abstract

Healthy social and emotional development and longer-term outcomes for children are shaped by factors across the multiple levels (micro, meso, exo, macro) of a child’s environment. By employing a novel systems science and participatory approach, we were able to co-produce a series of causal loop diagrams that detail the complex relationships between variables operating at the community or neighborhood environment level (e.g., features of the built environment such as: housing type, access, availability, and location; parks and greenspace, facilities such as community services, and other service infrastructure such as transit), and highlight the individual and collective impacts these relationships can have on the subsystem surrounding a child’s social and emotional well-being. Our approach provides a unique lens of knowledge through which communities can identify key leverage points for action and (re)design of community spaces, practices, and policy.

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Title
Understanding the Influence of Community-Level Determinants on Children’s Social and Emotional Well-Being: A Systems Science and Participatory Approach
Creator
Poon, Brenda T.; Atchison, Chris, 1971-; Kwan, Amanda
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Date Issued
2022-05-14
Description
Healthy social and emotional development and longer-term outcomes for children are shaped by factors across the multiple levels (micro, meso, exo, macro) of a child’s environment. By employing a novel systems science and participatory approach, we were able to co-produce a series of causal loop diagrams that detail the complex relationships between variables operating at the community or neighborhood environment level (e.g., features of the built environment such as: housing type, access, availability, and location; parks and greenspace, facilities such as community services, and other service infrastructure such as transit), and highlight the individual and collective impacts these relationships can have on the subsystem surrounding a child’s social and emotional well-being. Our approach provides a unique lens of knowledge through which communities can identify key leverage points for action and (re)design of community spaces, practices, and policy.
Subject
child development; early childhood; child mental health; child social and emotional well-being; systems science; community-based research; community capital; socio-ecological model; mixed methods; participatory approaches
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2022-06-02
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
CC BY 4.0
DOI
10.14288/1.0413752
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81679
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Department of; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of
Citation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (10): 5972 (2022)
Publisher DOI
10.3390/ijerph19105972
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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