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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		The connection between children's mental and physical health
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:03
	Publish Date:		2017-01-24 18:00:00
	Description:		If your children have mental health problems, their physical health might suffer, too. But psychiatrist Nicole Bush of the University of California, San Francisco, say this connection is often overlooked because of lack of research and funding in this field. "A lot of people are less motivated to support and provide funding to improve the mental health of children, a lot of people point to parents as being responsible for caring for that outcome. But when people realize that a child has an immune system problem that maybe affecting their metabolic profile, increasing their risk for obesity, their risk for infectious illness or asthma or other airway health outcomes, they start to be more concerned." Bush thinks all this may be a result of a psychological trauma or multiple adverse events in a child's life. She is currently analyzing data from her recent study to prove this point. "It has large societal impact. So, if we can identify harmful biological marks associated with that adversity, people maybe more motivated to invest in interventions for these populations".
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