The review found that CTs can be effective in tackling structural determinants of health such as financial poverty , education , household resilience , child labour , social capital and social cohesion , civic participation , and birth registration .
The review further found that CTs modify intermediate determinants such as nutrition , dietary diversity , child deprivation , sexual risk behaviours , teen pregnancy and early marriage .
In conjunction with their influence on SDoH , there is moderate evidence from the review that CTs impact on health and quality of life outcomes .
The review also found many factors relating to intervention design features , macro-economic stability , household dynamics and community acceptance of programs that could influence the effectiveness of CTs .
The external validity of the review findings is strong as the findings are largely consistent with those from Latin America .
Cash transfers ( CTs ) are now high on the agenda of most governments in low- and middle-income countries .
Within the field of health promotion , CTs constitute a healthy public policy initiative as they have the potential to address the social determinants of health ( SDoH ) and health inequalities .
A systematic review was conducted to synthesis e the evidence on CTs ' impacts on SDoH and health inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa , and to identify the barriers and facilitators of effective CTs .
The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status.
This paper evaluates an experiment in which individuals in rural Malawi were r and omly assigned monetary incentives to learn their HIV results after being tested . Distance to the HIV results centers was also r and omly assigned . Without any incentive , 34 percent of the participants learned their HIV results . However , even the smallest incentive doubled that share . Using the r and omly assigned incentives and distance from results centers as instruments for the knowledge of HIV status , sexually active HIV-positive individuals who learned their results are three times more likely to purchase condoms two months later than sexually active HIV-positive individuals who did not learn their results ; however , HIV-positive individuals who learned their results purchase only two additional condoms than those who did not . There is no significant effect of learning HIV-negative status on the purchase of condoms
The review found that CTs can be effective in tackling structural determinants of health such as financial poverty , education , household resilience , child labour , social capital and social cohesion , civic participation , and birth registration .
The review further found that CTs modify intermediate determinants such as nutrition , dietary diversity , child deprivation , sexual risk behaviours , teen pregnancy and early marriage .
In conjunction with their influence on SDoH , there is moderate evidence from the review that CTs impact on health and quality of life outcomes .
The review also found many factors relating to intervention design features , macro-economic stability , household dynamics and community acceptance of programs that could influence the effectiveness of CTs .
The external validity of the review findings is strong as the findings are largely consistent with those from Latin America .
Cash transfers ( CTs ) are now high on the agenda of most governments in low- and middle-income countries .
Within the field of health promotion , CTs constitute a healthy public policy initiative as they have the potential to address the social determinants of health ( SDoH ) and health inequalities .
A systematic review was conducted to synthesis e the evidence on CTs ' impacts on SDoH and health inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa , and to identify the barriers and facilitators of effective CTs .