Kneale Dylan, Kjaersgaard Abel, de Melo Malica, Joaquim Picardo Joelma, Griffin Sally, French Rebecca S, Burchett Helen E D
EPPI-Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
International Centre for Reproductive Health Mozambique (ICRH-M), Maputo, Mozambique.
PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023 Nov 9;3(11):e0001631. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001631. eCollection 2023.
Becoming pregnant and giving birth under the age of 20 is associated with a range of adverse social, socioeconomic and health outcomes for adolescent girls and their children in Low and middle income countries. Cash transfers are an example of a structural intervention that can change the local social and economic environment, and have been linked with positive health and social outcomes across several domains. As part of a wider review of structural adolescent contraception interventions, we conducted a systematic review on the impact of cash transfers on adolescent contraception and fertility. Fifteen studies were included in the review with eleven studies providing evidence for meta-analyses on contraception use, pregnancy and childbearing. The evidence suggests that cash transfer interventions are generally ineffective in raising levels of contraceptive use. However, cash transfer interventions did reduce levels of early pregnancy (OR 0.90, 95% CI 0.81 to 1.00). There was suggestive evidence that conditional, but not unconditional, cash transfers reduce levels of early childbearing. Given that much of the evidence is drawn from interventions providing cash transfers conditional on school attendance, supporting school attendance may enable adolescent girls and young women to make life choices that do not involve early pregnancy.
在低收入和中等收入国家,20岁以下怀孕和生育会给少女及其子女带来一系列不良的社会、社会经济和健康后果。现金转移是一种结构性干预措施,它可以改变当地的社会和经济环境,并且在多个领域都与积极的健康和社会成果相关联。作为对青少年结构性避孕干预措施更广泛审查的一部分,我们对现金转移对青少年避孕和生育的影响进行了系统综述。该综述纳入了15项研究,其中11项研究为避孕使用、怀孕和生育方面的荟萃分析提供了证据。证据表明,现金转移干预措施在提高避孕使用率方面通常无效。然而,现金转移干预措施确实降低了早孕水平(比值比0.90,95%置信区间0.81至1.00)。有迹象表明,有条件而非无条件的现金转移会降低早育水平。鉴于大部分证据来自以上学为条件提供现金转移的干预措施,支持上学可能使少女和年轻女性能够做出不涉及早孕的生活选择。