Surrounding road density of child care centers in Australia

Chunlei Han; Rongbin Xu; Xiaoyan Wei; Yajuan Zhang; Jiahui Liu; Yuguo Zhang; Tingting Ye; Siwei Wang; Wenhua Yu; Suying Guo; Kun Han; Yimin Ding; Jinfeng Wang; Yuming Guo; Shanshan Li

doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01172-1

Surrounding road density of child care centers in Australia

Sci Data. 2022 Mar 31;9(1):140. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01172-1.

Authors

Chunlei Han^{1

2}, Rongbin Xu², Xiaoyan Wei^{3

4}, Yajuan Zhang⁵, Jiahui Liu⁶, Yuguo Zhang⁶, Tingting Ye², Siwei Wang⁷, Wenhua Yu², Suying Guo², Kun Han^{8

9}, Yimin Ding¹⁰, Jinfeng Wang^{11

12}, Yuming Guo^{13

14}, Shanshan Li¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health and Management, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, 264003, P.R. China.
² School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
³ Yunnan Provincial Archives of Surveying and Mapping, Kunming, Yunnan, 650034, P.R. China.
⁴ Yunnan Provincial Geomatics Center, Kunming, Yunnan, 650034, P.R. China.
⁵ School of Public Health and Management, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 750004, P.R. China.
⁶ School of Geography and Ecotourism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650051, P.R. China.
⁷ Tangshan Gangxin Technology Development Co., Ltd, Tangshan, Hebei, 063611, P.R. China.
⁸ Guotai Junan Securities, Shanghai, 200030, P.R. China.
⁹ School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P.R. China.
¹⁰ School of software, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, P.R. China.
¹¹ State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China.
¹² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China.
¹³ School of Public Health and Management, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, 264003, P.R. China. Yuming.Guo@monash.edu.
¹⁴ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia. Yuming.Guo@monash.edu.
¹⁵ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia. Shanshan.Li@monash.edu.

Abstract

High surrounding road density could increase traffic-related air pollution, noise and the risk of traffic injuries, which are major public health concerns for children. We collected geographical data for all childcare centers (16,146) in Australia and provided the data on the road density surrounding them. The road density was represented by the child care center's nearest distance to main road and motorway, and the length of main road/motor way within 100~1000-meter buffer zone surrounding the child care center. We also got the data of PM_2.5 concentration from 2013 to 2018 and standard Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data from 2013 to 2019 according to the longitude and latitude of the child care centers. This data might help researchers to evaluate the health impacts of road density on child health, and help policy makers to make transportation, educational and environmental planning decisions to protect children from exposure to traffic-related hazards in Australia.

Publication types

Dataset

MeSH terms

Air Pollutants*
Air Pollution*
Child
Child Care*
Environmental Exposure
Humans

Substances

Air Pollutants

Grants and funding

201806010405/China Scholarship Council (CSC)