Integrating youth mental health into cash transfer programmes in response to the COVID-19 crisis in low-income and middle-income countries.
Integrating youth mental health into cash transfer programmes in response to the COVID-19 crisis in low-income and middle-income countries.
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DOI：
10.1016/s2215-0366(20)30382-5
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发表时间：
2021-04
影响因子：
64.3
通讯作者：
Evans-Lacko, Sara
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Bauer, Annette;Garman, Emily;McDaid, David;Avendano, Mauricio;Hessel, Philipp;Diaz, Yadira;Araya, Ricardo;Lund, Crick;Malvasi, Paulo;Matijasevich, Alicia;Park, A-La;Paula, Cristiane Silvestre;Ziebold, Carolina;Zimmerman, Annie;Evans-Lacko, Sara
社会保护措施可以在保障生计以及减轻 COVID-19 大流行的短期和长期经济、社会和心理健康影响方面发挥重要作用。特别是，目前各个低收入和中等收入国家正在调整或扩大现金转移计划，以在大流行期间支持个人和家庭。我们认为，当前的危机为这些项目提供了一个机会，可以将重点放在易受影响的年轻人（15-24 岁）上，包括那些患有心理健康问题的人。生活在贫困和有心理健康问题的年轻人特别容易遭受不利的健康、福祉和就业结果，并产生长期后果。在这次大流行期间，他们还面临出现心理健康问题的风险。为了支持这一人群，现金转移计划不仅应满足粮食安全和生存方面的紧迫需求，还应扩大关注范围，以解决流行病和经济危机的长期心理健康影响。这种方法可以帮助支持年轻人未来的生活机会，并打破精神疾病和贫困之间的恶性循环，这种循环使许多年轻人陷入社会经济和心理健康不利的境地。
Social protection measures can play an important part in securing livelihoods and in mitigating short-term and long-term economic, social, and mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, cash transfer programmes are currently being adapted or expanded in various low-income and middle-income countries to support individuals and families during the pandemic. We argue that the current crisis offers an opportunity for these programmes to focus on susceptible young people (aged 15–24 years), including those with mental health conditions. Young people living in poverty and with mental health problems are at particular risk of experiencing adverse health, wellbeing, and employment outcomes with long-term consequences. They are also at risk of developing mental health conditions during this pandemic. To support this population, cash transfer programmes should not only address urgent needs around food security and survival but expand their focus to address longer-term mental health impacts of pandemics and economic crises. Such an approach could help support young people's future life chances and break the vicious cycle between mental illness and poverty that spirals many young people into both socioeconomic and mental health disadvantage.