Costing 'healthy' food baskets in Australia - a systematic review of food price and affordability monitoring tools, protocols and methods.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To undertake a systematic review to determine similarities and differences in metrics and results between recently and/or currently used tools, protocols and methods for monitoring Australian healthy food prices and affordability.

Design

Electronic databases of peer-reviewed literature and online grey literature were systematically searched using the PRISMA approach for articles and reports relating to healthy food and diet price assessment tools, protocols, methods and results that utilised retail pricing.

Setting

National, state, regional and local areas of Australia from 1995 to 2015.

Subjects

Assessment tools, protocols and methods to measure the price of 'healthy' foods and diets.

Results

The search identified fifty-nine discrete surveys o

SUBMITTER: Lewis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10270823 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature