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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com. BACKGROUND: A 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. METHODS: In 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. RESULTS: We 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. CONCLUSIONS: These results set, for the first time, a set of research activities required in order to maximize health impact in UBI programmes.
Author(s): Johnson MT, Johnson EA, Nettle D, Pickett KE
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Public Health
Year: 2022
Volume: 44
Issue: 2
Pages: 408-416
Print publication date: 01/06/2022
Online publication date: 14/01/2021
Acceptance date: 11/12/2020
ISSN (print): 1741-3842
ISSN (electronic): 1741-3850
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa255
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa255
PubMed id: 33445181
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