Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 12:20 pm
A study to measure the mental health of young people who
grow up in areas with unhealthy environmental features, such
as gaming venues, takeaway shops and liquor outlets, is one
of 12 projects to get the greenlight through a new $4M
collaboration to fund child health research.
A Better
Start, one of the country’s 11 National Science
Challenges, and Cure Kids, New Zealand’s largest national
child health research charity, are co-funding the new
projects, which are all aimed at making a real-world
difference for tamariki and their whānau.
The
research projects are centred on three key research areas