ArticleMaternal and child health journal2017
Unmet Health Care Needs among Children Exposed to Parental Incarceration.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Parental Incarceration, Development, and Well-Being: A Developmental Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Family criminal legal system exposure and early adolescents' pubertal development: the mediating role of family strain.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Criminal Legal System Experiences Among Families Receiving Home Visiting Services: A Scoping Review of the Literature.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Association of Family Member Incarceration During Childhood and Smoking and Unhealthy Drinking Behaviors, Access to Care, and Functional Status Among Adults in the United States.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Paternal Incarceration and Adolescent Delinquency: Role of Father Engagement and Early Child Behavior Problems.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
- Exploring Parental Incarceration, US Government Support Programs, and Child Health and Well-Being: A National Cross-Sectional Study.The Journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Healthcare in Youth With Incarcerated Parents.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Health of Convicted Persons in the Third Generation of the Longitudinal Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2023Article
- The intergenerational effects of paternal incarceration on children's social and psychological well-being from early childhood to adolescence.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Health Care Access and Use Among Children & Adolescents Exposed to Parental Incarceration-United States, 2019.Academic pediatrics · 2023Article
- Parental imprisonment as a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic disease in adolescent and adult offspring: A prospective Australian birth cohort study.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Parental incarceration and child physical health outcomes from infancy to adulthood: A critical review and multilevel model of potential pathways.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2022Review
- The Longitudinal Associations Between Paternal Incarceration and Family Well-Being: Implications for Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Health.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Health and Development of Young Children Who Witnessed Their Parent's Arrest Prior to Parental Jail Incarceration.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Parental Incarceration, Child Adversity, and Child Health: A Strategic Comparison Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The role of stress and absence: How household member incarceration is associated with risky sexual health behaviors.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Food Security in the Context of Paternal Incarceration: Family Impact Perspectives.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Objectives The incarceration rate in the United States has increased rapidly since the mid-1970s and, accordingly, a large number of children are exposed to parental incarceration. Research finds that parental incarceration is associated with deleterious physical and mental health outcomes among children, but little is known about these children's health care access. Methods I used data from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health (N = 95,531), a population-based and nationally representative survey of non-institutionalized children ages 0-17 in the United States, to estimate the association between exposure to parental incarceration and children's unmet health care needs. Results In logistic regression models that adjust for an array of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, children exposed to parental incarceration, compared to their counterparts, have 1.26 (95% CI 1.02-1.54) times the odds of having any unmet health care need. Analyses that disaggregate by type of unmet health care need (mental, dental, vision, mental health, or other) suggest this association is driven by a greater likelihood of unmet mental health care needs (OR 1.60; 95% CI 1.04-2.46). Conclusions Children exposed to parental incarceration, a vulnerable group especially at risk of physical and mental health problems, face challenges to health care access, especially mental health care access. Given that parental incarceration is concentrated among those children most in need of health care, parental incarceration may exacerbate existing inequalities in unmet health care needs.
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