The effects of cash transfers on adult and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: Poverty is an important social determinant of health that is associated with increased risk of death^1-5. Cash transfer programmes provide non-contributory monetary transfers to individuals or households, with or without behavioural conditions such as children's school attendance^6,7. Over recent decades, cash transfer programmes have emerged as central components of poverty reduction strategies of many governments in low- and middle-income countries^6,7. The effects of these programmes on adult and child mortality rates remains an important gap in the literature, however, with existing evidence limited to a few specific conditional cash transfer programmes, primarily in Latin America^8-14. Here we evaluated the effects of large-scale, government-led

SUBMITTER: Richterman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10231298 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature