TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing trials of Universal Basic Income for health impact
T2 - identifying interdisciplinary questions to address
AU - Johnson, Matthew
AU - Johnson, Elliott
AU - Nettle, Daniel
AU - Pickett, Kate
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - BackgroundA large body of evidence indicates the importance of upstream determinants to health. Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been suggested as an upstream intervention capable of promoting health by affecting material, biopsychosocial and behavioural determinants. Calls are emerging across the political spectrum to introduce an emergency UBI to address socioeconomic insecurity. However, although existing studies indicate effects on health through cash transfers, UBI schemes have not previously been designed specifically to promote health.MethodsIn this article, we scope the existing literature to set out a set of interdisciplinary research challenges to address in designing a trial of the effectiveness of UBI as a population health measure.ResultsWe present a theoretical model of impact that identifies three pathways to health impact, before identifying open questions related to regularity, size of payment, needs-based supplements, personality and behaviour, conditionality and duration.ConclusionsThese results set, for the first time, a set of research activities required in order to maximize health impact in UBI programmes.
AB - BackgroundA large body of evidence indicates the importance of upstream determinants to health. Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been suggested as an upstream intervention capable of promoting health by affecting material, biopsychosocial and behavioural determinants. Calls are emerging across the political spectrum to introduce an emergency UBI to address socioeconomic insecurity. However, although existing studies indicate effects on health through cash transfers, UBI schemes have not previously been designed specifically to promote health.MethodsIn this article, we scope the existing literature to set out a set of interdisciplinary research challenges to address in designing a trial of the effectiveness of UBI as a population health measure.ResultsWe present a theoretical model of impact that identifies three pathways to health impact, before identifying open questions related to regularity, size of payment, needs-based supplements, personality and behaviour, conditionality and duration.ConclusionsThese results set, for the first time, a set of research activities required in order to maximize health impact in UBI programmes.
KW - Public health
KW - Universal Basic Income
KW - public policy
KW - socio-economic status
KW - socioeconomic status
KW - public health
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U2 - 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa255
DO - 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa255
M3 - Article
SN - 1741-3842
VL - 44
SP - 408
EP - 416
JO - Journal of Public Health
JF - Journal of Public Health
IS - 2
ER -