Spending time in nature promotes early childhood development

Medical X-Press – Lou Corpuz-Bosshart

For the study, researchers at the UBC faculty of forestry and faculty of medicine analyzed the developmental scores of 27,372 children in Metro Vancouver who attended kindergarten between 2005 and 2011. They estimated the amount of greenspace around each child‘s residence from birth to age five. They also assessed levels of traffic-related air pollution and community noise.

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