Poverty and perceived stress: Evidence from two unconditional cash transfer programs in Zambia

Hjelm, Lisa; Handa, Sudhanshu; Hoop, Jacobus de; Palermo, Tia; Cgp, Zambia; Teams, Mcp Evaluation

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.023

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“…We also find support for this alternative to resettlement in the corpus of social policy, social justice and development literatures. Although not without contention (Carter et al, 2016;Araujo et al, 2017), viewed broadly, cash transfer programmes have been shown to reduce poverty, increase employment rates, and improve education and vaccination rates (Ballard, 2013;Ferguson, 2015;Hjelm et al, 2017). Here we see the potential of cash transfers to bolster the economic and social determinants of adaptive capacity and enable people to exercise their own agency in ways that state-driven planned resettlement projects with uneven outcomes cannot.…”

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Planned resettlement to avoid climatic hazards: What prospects for just outcomes in China?

Wilmsen

Rogers

2019

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Planned resettlement is being widely considered as a response to the impacts of climate change.As many millions of people are expected to be displaced in the coming decades, scholars and policymakers are searching for precedence to inform their research and planning, particularly from experiences of Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (DIDR). Nowhere in the world is DIDR and other closely related forms of planned resettlement more prevalent than in China: an estimated 78 million people have been displaced by development projects over the last six decades. While planned resettlement has consistently been shown to cause impoverishment, the Chinese state views it as the answer to a multitude of social ills including poverty, environmental damage, low levels of domestic consumption, and most recently, climate change, providing impetus to the normalisation of resettlement as adaptation. This paper examines the prospects for just outcomes in resettlement projects by examining distributive justice at multiple scales in existing resettlement practice in China. It finds that due to the interplay between resettlement and questions of procedural justice, prospects for just outcomes are quite limited, and that in order to achieve fair adaptation, alternatives to planned resettlement should be emphasised.

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Planned resettlement to avoid climatic hazards: What prospects for just outcomes in China?

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2019

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“…Otra limitación refiere a la omisión de algunas variables que podrían estar mediando el impacto de las condiciones de pobreza/riqueza sobre funciones cognitivas. Por ejemplo, el estrés (ver p.e., Cohen, Doyle, & Baum, 2006;Hjelm, Handa, De Hoop, Palermo, & Zambia C.G.P., 2017). Así, futuros estudios podrían incorporar esta variable para explicar los efectos de la pobreza sobre distintos dominios cognitivos y también sociales.…”

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Efecto de la disponibilidad de recursos económicos sobre funciones cognitivas y preferencias sociales

2020

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El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar de manera experimental el efecto de la disponibilidad de recursos económicos sobre funciones cognitivas y preferencias sociales en estudiantes universitarios. Se condujo un estudio con diseño experimental inter-sujetos en el que participaron 60 estudiantes universitarios. Se comparó el desempeño de participantes expuestos a condiciones de altos y bajos recursos económicos en tareas de desempeño cognitivo (inteligencia fluida y control inhibitorio) y de preferencias sociales (Juego del Ultimátum, con ofertas de distinto grado de justicia. En general, los resultados indicaron que no hubo diferencias significativas entre los participantes de las condiciones de bajos y altos recursos económicos en las funciones cognitivas y preferencias sociales. En cambio, hubo diferencias según sexo en el dominio cognitivo. Se discuten los resultados a la luz de investigaciones previas y se reconocen las principales limitaciones.

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“…В то же время, она может неоднозначно восприниматься населением, на что указывает исследование Hjelm L, et al (2018), изучающее влияние государственных финансовых программ по борьбе с бедностью на стресс среди бедных домохозяйств в Замбии (Южная Африка). Как показало исследование, финансовые программы не повлияли на изменение частоты стресса, однако это привело к улучшению продовольственной безопасности, связанной с улучшением качества продуктов, что в итоге косвенно привело к снижению распространенности стресса [17]. Отсутствие связи финансового дохода отмечено и в другом исследовании [9].…”

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“…Для мужчин ассоциация уровня образования со стрессом в нашем исследовании не найдена. В исследовании Hjelm L, et al (2018) среди бедных домохозяйств в Замбии уровень образования также не показал устойчивой связи со стрессом как среди мужчин, так и среди женщин [17]. Однако в популяционном исследовании, изучающем распространенность стресса в возрасте после 65 лет, более высокие средние уровни воспринимаемого стресса были связаны с низким уровнем образования [7].…”

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Association of stress with cardiovascular diseases and risk factors in a population (ESSE-RF in Kemerovo region)

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Aim. To assess the prevalence of stress and its association with socio-demographic characteristics, cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the Siberian population.Material and methods. A cross-sectional study was performed in the framework of the Russian multicenter epidemiological study ESSE-RF in the Kemerovo Region in 2013. The presented study included 1628 individuals aged 25 to 64 years. Information was assessed on the presence of stress, some socio-demographic and economic characteristics, a history of CVD, as well as behavioral habits and quality of life. To eliminate the modifying effect of socio-demographic characteristics, a logistic regression analysis was used. The odds ratio (OR) and the 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated.Results. The prevalence of stress was 22,6%; stress was statistically significantly more often recorded in women (28,1%) than in men (11,7%). After adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics, stress was statistically significantly more often recorded in people with secondary and primary education compared with those with higher education (24,9% and 19,1%, p=0,006), as well as in people with middle and high financial affluence compared with low affluence (24,5% and 11,3%, p<0,001). This association is observed only at the expense of women. For unemployed participants, the stress rate is higher only among males — 18,8% versus 11,4% among workers (p=0,015). Stress was also statistically significantly more often recorded in groups with arterial hypertension, lack of sleep, quality of life on the EQ-VAS scale and on the EuroQol scale. Smokers are more likely to have stress (23,8% vs 22,0%) and have a history of stroke (35,3% vs 22,2%). Among all CVDs and their risk factors, an inverse association of stress with obesity was revealed only in men.Conclusion. Study showed that people with stress are under large load of some cardiovascular risk factors. At the same time, ambiguous associations between stress and arterial hypertension and quality of life were obtained. This confirms the need for further study of the association of stress with other factors of cardiovascular risk, taking into account age and gender and socio-economic characteristics of the population.

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Poverty and perceived stress: Evidence from two unconditional cash transfer programs in Zambia

Cited by 109 publications

References 61 publications

Planned resettlement to avoid climatic hazards: What prospects for just outcomes in China?

Planned resettlement to avoid climatic hazards: What prospects for just outcomes in China?

Efecto de la disponibilidad de recursos económicos sobre funciones cognitivas y preferencias sociales

Association of stress with cardiovascular diseases and risk factors in a population (ESSE-RF in Kemerovo region)

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