Streamlined data-gathering techniques to estimate the price and affordability of healthy and unhealthy diets under different pricing scenarios.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the reliability of streamlined data-gathering techniques for examining the price and affordability of a healthy (recommended) and unhealthy (current) diet. We additionally estimated the price and affordability of diets across socio-economic areas and quantified the influence of different pricing scenarios.

Design

Following the Healthy Diets Australian Standardised Affordability and Pricing (ASAP) protocol, we compared a cross-sectional sample of food and beverage pricing data collected using online data and phone calls (lower-resource streamlined techniques) with data collected in-store from the same retailers.

Setting

Food and beverage prices were collected from major supermarkets, fast food and alcohol retailers in eight conveniently sampled a

SUBMITTER: Zorbas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195412 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature