Testing the price and affordability of healthy and current (unhealthy) diets and the potential impacts of policy change in Australia
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- 作者：Amanda J. Lee ; Sarah Kane ; Rebecca Ramsey ; Elizabeth Good ; Mathew Dick
- 关键词：INFORMAS ; Diet prices ; Food prices ; Diet affordability ; Food affordability ; Food policy ; Food environments ; Healthy diets ; Obesity prevention ; Non ; communicable disease
- 刊名：BMC Public Health
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：16
- 期：1
- 全文大小：607 KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2458
文摘
Background Price and affordability of foods are important determinants of health. Targeted food pricing policies may help improve population diets. However, methods producing comparable data to inform relevant policy decisions are lacking in Australia and globally. The objective was to develop and pilot standardised methods to assess the price, relative price and affordability of healthy (recommended) and current (unhealthy) diets and test impacts of a potential policy change.