Money-Health Connection

As part of the National Cancer Institute-funded Money Health Connection Study, we gathered and tested measures of financial well-being (FWB).

The study included a transdisciplinary literature review of concepts used to measure FWB from the following fields: medicine/public health, social/behavioral sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, and economics), social work, and consumer/family sciences.

From the review, we developed a transdisciplinary conceptual model of FWB that includes three domains: Material, Psychosocial, and Behavioral. Our conceptual model borrows from theories developed to explain disparities in health.

See this paper in the journal Gerontologist titled, “Material–Psychosocial–Behavioral Aspects of Financial Hardship: A Conceptual Model for Cancer Prevention”: https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/59/Supplement_1/S88/5491143