TY - JOUR

T1 - Designing trials of Universal Basic Income for health impact

T2 - identifying interdisciplinary questions to address

AU - Johnson, Matthew

AU - Johnson, Elliott

AU - Nettle, Daniel

AU - Pickett, Kate

N1 - This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Matthew Thomas Johnson, Elliott Aidan Johnson, Daniel Nettle, Kate E Pickett, Designing trials of Universal Basic Income for health impact: identifying interdisciplinary questions to address, Journal of Public Health, 2022, pp. 408-416 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/44/2/408/6095845?login=true

PY - 2022/6/30

Y1 - 2022/6/30

N2 - BackgroundA 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 socio-economic insecurity. However, although existing studies indicate effects on health through cash transfers, UBI schemes have not previously been designed specifically to promote health.MethodsIn 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.ResultsWe 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.ConclusionsThese results set, for the first time, a set of research activities required in order to maximise health impact in UBI programmes.Keywords: Public health; Universal Basic Income; public policy; socio-economic status

AB - BackgroundA 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 socio-economic insecurity. However, although existing studies indicate effects on health through cash transfers, UBI schemes have not previously been designed specifically to promote health.MethodsIn 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.ResultsWe 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.ConclusionsThese results set, for the first time, a set of research activities required in order to maximise health impact in UBI programmes.Keywords: Public health; Universal Basic Income; public policy; socio-economic status

KW - public health

KW - public policy

KW - socieconomic status

KW - Universal Basic Income

U2 - 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa255

DO - 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa255

M3 - Journal article

VL - 44

SP - 408

EP - 416

JO - Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom)

JF - Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom)

SN - 1741-3842

IS - 2

ER -