"We're proposing that health researchers get involved in projects like housing, like economic development, certainly educational projects, and study the health effects hopefully the health benefits of these complex social, economic interactions.

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I study child development for a living and I'm interested in several questions.

我主要研究儿童的发展,我对很多问题都感兴趣

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Fine. But there are reasons to study development even if you are not interested in children because sometimes developmental studies and developmental data and developmental science can inform questions about adults.

没关系,但即使你对儿童不感兴趣,却依然有很多原因促使你去研究发展,因为发展的研究,数据以及科学,有时可以解释成人的问题

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