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Costing 'healthy' food baskets in Australia - a systematic review of food price and affordability monitoring tools, protocols and methods.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Concerns and priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples regarding food and nutrition: a systematic review of qualitative evidence.International journal for equity in health · 2021Pooled it
- Measuring Rural Food Environments for Local Action in Australia: A Systematic Critical Synthesis Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
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- The association between diet price and diet quality among Australian adults participating in the 2020 International Food Policy Study.The British journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Where Cost of Food Hits Hardest: Investigation of Diet Cost and Affordability in a Low Socioeconomic Region of Australia.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025Article
- Affordability of Habitual (Unhealthy) and Recommended (Healthy) Diets in the Illawarra Using the Healthy Diets ASAP Protocol.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Measuring Food and Water Security in an Aboriginal Community in Regional Australia.The Australian journal of rural health · 2025Article
- Making it on the breadline - improving food security on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, Central Australia.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Developing a Mediterranean Healthy Food Basket and an Updated Australian Healthy Food Basket Modelled on the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Healthy Food Prices Increased More Than the Prices of Unhealthy Options during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Concurrent Challenges to the Food System.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Costing recommended (healthy) and current (unhealthy) diets in urban and inner regional areas of Australia using remote price collection methods.Public health nutrition · 2022Article
- Dietitians Australia position statement on healthy and sustainable diets.Nutrition & dietetics : the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia · 2022Article
- Child-, Family-, and Community-Level Facilitators for Promoting Oral Health Practices among Indigenous Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Developing and implementing a new methodology to test the affordability of currently popular weight loss diet meal plans and healthy eating principles.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Affordability of Heathy, Equitable and More Sustainable Diets in Low-Income Households in Brisbane before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Nutrients · 2021Article
- A Proposed Research Agenda for Promoting Healthy Retail Food Environments in the East Asia-Pacific Region.Current nutrition reports · 2021Review
- A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents.Nutrients · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo 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.
designElectronic 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.
settingNational, 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.
resultsThe search identified fifty-nine discrete surveys of 'healthy' food pricing incorporating six major food pricing tools (those used in multiple areas and time periods) and five minor food pricing tools (those used in a single survey area or time period). Analysis demonstrated methodological differences regarding: included foods; reference households; use of availability and/or quality measures; household income sources; store sampling methods; data collection protocols; analysis methods; and results.
conclusions'Healthy' food price assessment methods used in Australia lack comparability across all metrics and most do not fully align with a 'healthy' diet as recommended by the current Australian Dietary Guidelines. None have been applied nationally. Assessment of the price, price differential and affordability of healthy (recommended) and current (unhealthy) diets would provide more robust and meaningful data to inform health and fiscal policy in Australia. The INFORMAS 'optimal' approach provides a potential framework for development of these methods.
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