Welfare reform, poverty, food bank use and mental health in the UK.

该项目旨在研究英国福利制度最近的政策变化如何影响经历粮食不安全的个人和家庭的心理健康，以及这与英国越来越多地使用粮食银行有何联系。在食品银行使用者中，心理健康问题的流行率很高，影响到35%以上的人口。然而，这种关联背后的因果机制是复杂的：精神健康状况不佳可能是贫困和粮食不安全造成的，但精神健康状况不佳也可能是粮食不安全和贫困的原因。该项目将研究福利改革、粮食不安全和心理健康之间的关系和潜在的因果机制，特别关注自2010年以来英国粮食银行使用率的上升。它将使用定量数据来研究福利改革的因果关系，并了解生活史如何影响粮食不安全，心理健康和福利之间的复杂联系。它还可能涉及与粮食银行用户和决策者的深入访谈。

This project aims to examine how recent policy changes in the UK welfare system influence the mental health of individuals and families experiencing food insecurity, and how this is linked to the increasing use of food banks in the UK. The prevalence of mental health problems is high among food bank users, affecting over 35% of this population. The causal mechanisms underlying this association, however, are complex: poor mental health may be caused by poverty and food insecurity, but poor mental health may also be the cause of food insecurity and poverty. This project will examine the relationship and underlying causal mechanisms between welfare reform, food insecurity and mental health, with a particular focus on the rise in the use of food banks since 2010 in the UK. It will use quantitative data to examine the causal effect of welfare reform, and to understand how life histories influence the complex links between food insecurity, mental health and welfare benefits. It may also involve in-depth interviews with food bank users and policymakers.