ArticleGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2023
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.
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- Poverty-reduction interventions combined with psychological interventions: A systematic literature review.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
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- Brazilian conditional cash transfer programme's impact on youth human capital outcomes: the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Pathways to suicide prevention: a population-based cohort study of the mediating role of Bolsa Família in psychosocial stressors in the 100 million Brazilian cohort.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Conditional cash transfers and mortality in people hospitalised with psychiatric disorders: A cohort study of the Brazilian Bolsa Família Programme.PLoS medicine · 2024Article
- Health, economic and social impacts of the Brazilian cash transfer program on the lives of its beneficiaries: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Global mental health and its social determinants: How should we intervene?Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Review
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Abstract
Mental health is inextricably linked to both poverty and future life chances such as education, skills, labour market attachment and social function. Poverty can lead to poorer mental health, which reduces opportunities and increases the risk of lifetime poverty. Cash transfer programmes are one of the most common strategies to reduce poverty and now reach substantial proportions of populations living in low- and middle-income countries. Because of their rapid expansion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, they have recently gained even more importance. Recently, there have been suggestions that these cash transfers might improve youth mental health, disrupting the cycle of disadvantage at a critical period of life. Here, we present a conceptual framework describing potential mechanisms by which cash transfer programmes could improve the mental health and life chances of young people. Furthermore, we explore how theories from behavioural economics and cognitive psychology could be used to more specifically target these mechanisms and optimise the impact of cash transfers on youth mental health and life chances. Based on this, we identify several lines of enquiry and action for future research and policy.
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