Basic income guarantee: a review of implications for oral health

Chen, Yi‐An; Quiñonez, Carlos

doi:10.1111/jphd.12239

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“…So far, no empirical study examined the impact of a basic income on oral health. However, the existing evidence for impacts on health and socioeconomic outcomes suggests that a basic income could reduce the oral health inequalities caused by poverty and income inequality 59 . Pilot studies have shown that basic income guarantees are linked to better educational outcomes, better mental health, lower overall hospitalization rates, and healthier diets, all of which would likely have positive knock‐on effects on oral health.…”

Section: Direct Approaches To Reducing Fundamental Economic Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering economic interventions to reduce oral health inequalities

Aida

Ishimaru

Kino

2023

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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Despite the general recognition of economic factors as fundamental upstream social determinants of health inequalities, interventions to improve health and reduce inequalities tend to focus on proximal health determinants. However, recent socioeconomic crises have increased the focus on economic factors. Health-related approaches to address economic factors can be divided into two categories: (1) indirect approaches, such as financial support for obtaining dental care and fiscal policies targeting unhealthy commodities and (2) direct approaches, such as cash transfers or provision of a universal basic income. For indirect approaches, policies reducing outof-pocket payments for dental care appear to improve access to services and reduce oral health inequalities. Price policies targeting tobacco and sugar through taxation are associated with declines in periodontal disease and caries, and sugar taxation appears to reduce oral health inequalities. As regards direct approaches, studies on cash transfers to low-income individuals have found no positive impact on dental visits, while results in relation to caries prevention were inconclusive. No dental studies examined the effect of a population approach to income security, such as basic income.Research on economic interventions for oral health inequalities is scarce, and studies using causal inference methods and natural experiments are urgently needed.

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Section: Direct Approaches To Reducing Fundamental Economic Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering economic interventions to reduce oral health inequalities

Aida

Ishimaru

Kino

2023

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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“…The second type emphasizes the target population is receiving BI with a relatively more concrete sense. In this type, scholars usually assert that one with citizenship is qualified to be the recipient of BI (Von Gliszczynski 2017;Chen and Quinonez 2018;Van Parijs 1991). In some cases, being an adult is another requirement in a stricter case (Van der Veen 1998;McKay and Vanevery 2000;McKay 2001).…”

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“…The institution is the fourth most mentioned vital attribute in the BI definition, and it is relevant to who would be responsible for implementing BI. Twelve pieces of literature commonly describe a government or a political establishment takes the role (Bill 1988;Achterberg 2002;Cruz-Saco 2002;Van Parijs 2004;Raventós 2007;Lovett 2009;Krozer 2010;Zwolinski 2011;Beck et al 2015;Chen and Quinonez 2018;Pateman 2004;Davies and Bregman 2017). And the level of government is determined by the scale of BI.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is commonly argued that BI could potentially contribute to addressing poverty issues (Lacey 2017;Davies and Bregman 2017;Chen and Quinonez 2018;Ferguson 2010;Richter et al 2009;Clark and Kavanagh 1996;Ilcan and Lacey 2015;Berman 2018), more effectively than existing poverty reduction policies (Davies and Bregman 2017). Such discussion is raised within the context of developed countries (Atkinson 2014;Clark and Kavanagh 1996) and has become popular in developing countries (Ferguson 2010;Seekings 2002;Ilcan and Lacey 2015;Van Parijs 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Meanwhile, he also identified a decline of receiver contacts with physicians, especially for mental health. Such a positive impact of BI on human health, including child health development and mental health in the NIT experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, has been reviewed again in recent research (Ruckert et al 2018;Chen and Quinonez 2018).…”

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Review on basic income (BI): its theories and empirical cases

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A basis of fundamental knowledge of different basic income approaches (BI) is essential to be elaborated for enhancing the prevalent debates on BI as an important solution on social transformation. Aiming to contribute to the current knowledge gaps and future research agendas on BI, this paper elaborates on BI theories and BI empirical cases, linkage, and gaps between these two parts. A total of 152 pieces of literature on BI theories and BI empirical cases were intensively reviewed, which includes BI definitions, positive and negative conceptual impacts of BI argued to bring to human society from social, economic, and policy-and-governance perspectives, as well as the implementation and the outcomes of 15 selected BI empirical cases. Our findings indicate that BI definitions remain imprecise, and the BI empirical cases are implemented in diverse ways. We also identified that many conceptual impacts of BI were not achieved in the reviewed BI empirical cases. We further argue that the policy environment for implementing BI has not been entirely created at present, and a key issue is that the ambiguity between the BI theories and BI empirical cases causes difficulties to generate widely agreed principles guiding the implementation of BI. This paper suggests that future studies on BI should focus more on revising existing BI definitions which need to be simplified, detailed, and unified, generating universal principles guiding the implementation of BI, and developing indicators measuring BI's consequences.

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Medical epistemology meets economics: how (not) to GRADE universal basic income research

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2023

Journal of Economic Methodology

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There have recently been novel applications of medical systematic review guidelines to economic policy interventions which contain controversial methodological assumptions that require further scrutiny. A landmark 2017 Cochrane review of unconditional cash transfer (UCT) studies, based on the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE), exemplifies both the possibilities and limitations of applying medical systematic review guidelines to UCT and universal basic income (UBI) studies. Recognizing the need to upgrade GRADE to incorporate the differences between medical and policy interventions, the GRADE Public Health Project Group (PHPG) was convened to enumerate and address these methodological challenges. However, in light of our analysis of additional methodological challenges that arise for UCT and UBI studies, we argue that the adaptation of medical systematic review guidelines to economic methodology is far from straightforward and is in fact more challenging than claimed by the PHPG.

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Basic income guarantee: a review of implications for oral health

Abstract: Our findings illustrate the importance of assessing oral health-related outcomes in future BIG pilot projects.

Cited by 5 publications

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Reconsidering economic interventions to reduce oral health inequalities

Reconsidering economic interventions to reduce oral health inequalities

Review on basic income (BI): its theories and empirical cases

Medical epistemology meets economics: how (not) to GRADE universal basic income research

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