Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
J Public Health (Oxf). 2022 Jun 27;44(2):408-416. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa255.
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.
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.
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.
These results set, for the first time, a set of research activities required in order to maximize health impact in UBI programmes.
大量证据表明，健康的上游决定因素很重要。普遍基本收入（UBI）被认为是一种能够通过影响物质、生物心理社会和行为决定因素来促进健康的上游干预措施。在整个政治领域都有人呼吁引入紧急 UBI 以解决社会经济不安全问题。然而，尽管现有研究表明现金转移对健康有影响，但 UBI 计划以前并未专门设计用于促进健康。
在本文中，我们对现有文献进行了综述，以确定在设计 UBI 作为一项人口健康措施的有效性试验时需要解决的一组跨学科研究挑战。
我们提出了一个影响的理论模型，该模型确定了影响健康的三种途径，然后确定了与规律性、支付金额、基于需求的补贴、个性和行为、条件和持续时间相关的开放性问题。
这些结果首次确定了为了在 UBI 计划中最大限度地提高健康影响所需的一系列研究活动。
