abstract: 'Parents'' health and children''s health are closely intertwined healthier

  parents have healthier children, and vice versa. Genetics accounts for

  some of this relationship, but much of it can be traced to environment

  and behavior, and the environmental and behavioral risk factors for poor

  health disproportionately affect families living in poverty. Unhealthy

  children are likely to become unhealthy adults, and poor health drags

  down both their educational attainment and their income.

  Because of the close connection between parents'' and children''s health,

  write Sherry Glied and Don Oellerich, we have every reason to believe

  that programs to improve parents'' health will improve their children''s

  health as well. Yet few programs aim to work this way, except for a

  narrow category of programs that target pregnant women, newborns, and

  very young children. Glied and Oellerich assess these programs, discuss

  why there are so few of them, and suggest ways to expand them. Their

  chief conclusion is that structural barriers in the U.S. healthcare

  system stand in the way of such programs. Some of these barriers have to

  do with health insurance, access to care, and benefits, but the biggest

  one is the fact that physicians typically specialize in treating either

  children or adults, rather than families as a whole. The Affordable Care

  Act has begun to break down some of these barriers, the authors write,

  but much remains to be done.'
affiliation: 'Glied, S (Corresponding Author), NYU, Robert F Wagner Grad Sch Publ
  Serv, Publ Serv, New York, NY 10003 USA.

  Glied, Sherry, NYU, Robert F Wagner Grad Sch Publ Serv, Publ Serv, New York, NY
  10003 USA.

  Oellerich, Don, US Dept Hlth \& Human Serv, Off Assistant Secretary Planning \&
  Evaluat, Washington, DC USA.'
author: Glied, Sherry and Oellerich, Don
author_list:
- family: Glied
  given: Sherry
- family: Oellerich
  given: Don
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1353/foc.2014.0006
eissn: 1550-1558
files: []
issn: 1054-8289
journal: FUTURE OF CHILDREN
keywords-plus: 'EARLY-CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY; PARENTAL INFLUENCE; PRENATAL-CARE;

  DEPRESSION; CHILDREN; SMOKING; MOTHERS; STRESS; ABUSE; RISK'
language: English
month: SPR
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '64'
pages: 79-97
papis_id: 69197a647d42fc9ff4d7044068d089d1
ref: Glied2014twogenerationprogram
times-cited: '7'
title: Two-Generation Programs and Health
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000334819000005
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '14'
volume: '24'
web-of-science-categories: 'Family Studies; Health Policy \& Services; Social Sciences,

  Interdisciplinary'
year: '2014'