Journal
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND
Volume 52, Issue 3, Pages 216-236Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2022.2058026
Keywords
Cohort study; longitudinal; life course; child wellbeing; health inequalities; social determinants; resilience
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- New Zealand Government
- Ministry for Social Development
- Ministry of Justice
- Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
- Ministry for Pacific Peoples
- Ministry for Women
- Department of Corrections
- Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
- Office of Ethnic Communities
- Statistics New Zealand
- Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Treasury
- Auckland UniServices Limited
- Ministry of Health and Education
- Ministry of Oranga Tamariki
- Ministry of Te Puni Kokiri
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Growing Up in New Zealand is the largest contemporary longitudinal study in the country, providing insight into the lives of children and young people. While most children are growing up well, a significant portion face challenges that limit their wellbeing and opportunities.
Growing Up in New Zealand is this country's largest contemporary longitudinal study of child development. The study has been designed to provide insight into the lives of children and young people growing up in the context of twenty-first century New Zealand. The Growing Up in New Zealand cohort recruited 6853 children representative of the current ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of births in Aotearoa, New Zealand in 2009 and 2010. The developmental wellbeing of the children has been tracked in detail over their first thousand days of life and every two to three years since. While the majority of the cohort are growing up healthy and happy, a significant proportion of children are growing up in families who have been persistently burdened with multiple stressors associated with economic, material and social hardship. This has created a disproportionate burden of poorer overall wellbeing outcomes and limited life course opportunities for these children from an early age. This paper will explore some of the evidence collected from the diverse cohort of New Zealand children and their families and whanau from before birth to middle childhood, highlighting the key findings and the utility of the evidence to improve wellbeing.
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