Using conditionality as a solution to the problem of low uptake of essential services among disadvantaged communities: A social determinants view

I. Forde, R. Bell and M.G. Marmot

American Journal of Public Health, 2011, vol. 101, issue 8, 1365-1369

Abstract: Conditional cash transfer schemes, which use cash to incentivize uptake of basic health and educational services, are well established among social planners inlowand middle-income countries and are now taking hold in high-income countries. Weappraised these schemes within a social determinants framework and found some encouraging signs in their first decade of operation. Success, however, has been inconsistent, and it is unclear whether conditional cash transfer schemes can reliably secure meaningful improvements in participants' health and nutritional status or educational attainment. Conditional cash transfer schemes' objectives will not be met unless they are transformed in 3 ways: transferring power as well as resources, emphasizing entitlements alongside conditionality, and avoiding the trap of incoherent or residualized policy.

Date: 2011
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