ArticleThe lancet. Psychiatry2021
Integrating youth mental health into cash transfer programmes in response to the COVID-19 crisis in low-income and middle-income countries.
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- Impact of conditional and unconditional cash transfers on health outcomes and use of health services in humanitarian settings: a mixed-methods systematic review.BMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
- The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2021Pooled it
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- Health, economic and social impacts of the Brazilian cash transfer program on the lives of its beneficiaries: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
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- Potential mechanisms by which cash transfer programmes could improve the mental health and life chances of young people: A conceptual framework and lines of enquiry for research and policy.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Making an economic argument for investment in global mental health: The case of conflict-affected refugees and displaced people.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2023Review
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- Health indicators and poor health dynamics during COVID-19 pandemic.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Exploring the co-movements between COVID-19 pandemic and international air traffic: A global perspective based on wavelet analysis.International migration (Geneva, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Cash, COVID-19 and aid cuts: a mixed-method impact evaluation among South Sudanese refugees registered in Kiryandongo settlement, Uganda.BMJ global health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social protection measures can play an important part in securing livelihoods and in mitigating short-term and long-term economic, social, and mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, cash transfer programmes are currently being adapted or expanded in various low-income and middle-income countries to support individuals and families during the pandemic. We argue that the current crisis offers an opportunity for these programmes to focus on susceptible young people (aged 15-24 years), including those with mental health conditions. Young people living in poverty and with mental health problems are at particular risk of experiencing adverse health, wellbeing, and employment outcomes with long-term consequences. They are also at risk of developing mental health conditions during this pandemic. To support this population, cash transfer programmes should not only address urgent needs around food security and survival but expand their focus to address longer-term mental health impacts of pandemics and economic crises. Such an approach could help support young people's future life chances and break the vicious cycle between mental illness and poverty that spirals many young people into both socioeconomic and mental health disadvantage.
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