May 23 - 24, 2023 The Health Dividend: Can Unconditional Basic Income Address Health Inequities? |
Schedule:
Monday 22 MayDinner at Brocher Foundation
Tuesday 23 May
7:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Session 1 | Basic Income and Health Inequity
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Session 2 | Health Outcomes and Pathways
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 3 | Basic Income and Mental Health
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Session 4 | Basic Income, Gender and Health
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday 24 May
7:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00–10:30 Session 5 | Basic Income and the Pandemic
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2 | Health Dividends as a Political Strategy
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 3 | Health and Basic Income Experiments
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session 4 | Future Directions in Research
18:00 Farewell
Organizers:
- Panitch Vida
- MacKay Douglas
- De Wispelaere Jurgen
This multidisciplinary workshop focuses on the potential for basic income policies to address health inequities. All societies feature a social gradient in health wherein people with higher socioeconomic status live longer and experience better health than people with lower socioeconomic status. While social scientists disagree on the social determinants of these health outcomes and the causal pathways by which they affect people’s health, there is strong evidence that poverty is bad for the health of children and adults. A basic income, a regular, unconditional cash transfer, would appear to be a promising intervention to improve the health outcomes of the socio-economically disadvantaged and so flatten the social gradient. Indeed, there is evidence that interventions similar to a basic income improve health outcomes. This workshop will explore the prospects of basic income policies for addressing health inequities. Participants include ethicists, economists, political scientists, and policy analysts. The workshop will endeavor not only to serve as a research sharing and knowledge mobilization opportunity for participants but also as an opportunity to set a collaborative research agenda.
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