ArticleNutrition journal2019
Socioeconomic and ethnic differences in the relation between dietary costs and dietary quality: the HELIUS study.
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- The cost of healthy versus current diets in the Netherlands for households with a low, middle and high education.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Diet cost and quality using the Healthy Eating Index-2015 in adults from urban and rural areas of Mexico.Public health nutrition · 2022Article
- Evaluation of foods, drinks and diets in the Netherlands according to the degree of processing for nutritional quality, environmental impact and food costs.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Food environment interactions after migration: a scoping review on low- and middle-income country immigrants in high-income countries.Public health nutrition · 2022Article
- Does the neighbourhood food environment contribute to ethnic differences in diet quality? Results from the HELIUS study in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Affordability of Different Isocaloric Healthy Diets in Germany-An Assessment of Food Prices for Seven Distinct Food Patterns.Nutrients · 2021Article
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- Exploring the Role of the Food Environment in Dietary Acculturation: A Study amongst Moroccan Immigrants in The Netherlands.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Poor Taste and Smell Are Associated with Poor Appetite, Macronutrient Intake, and Dietary Quality but Not with Undernutrition in Older Adults.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Small increments in diet cost can improve compliance with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- To what extent do dietary costs explain socio-economic differences in dietary behavior?Nutrition journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundHealthier dietary patterns are generally more costly than less healthy patterns, but dietary costs may be more important for dietary quality in lower educated and ethnic minority groups. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between dietary costs and dietary quality and interactions with ethnicity and socioeconomic position (SEP).
methodsWe used cross-sectional data from 4717 Dutch, Surinamese, Turkish and Moroccan origin participants of the multi-ethnic HELIUS study (the Netherlands), who completed an ethnic-specific food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). The primary outcome measure was dietary quality according to adherence to the Dutch Healthy Diet index 2015 (DHD15-index, range 0-130). Individual dietary costs (the monetary value attached to consumed diets in Euros) were estimated by merging a food price variable with the FFQ nutrient composition database. Regression analyses were used to examine main and interaction effects. Analyses were adjusted for age, sex, smoking, energy intake, physical activity, ethnicity and educational level.
resultsHaving higher dietary costs was associated with higher dietary quality. Analyses stratified by educational level showed that associations were stronger in higher educated (B
conclusionsThe importance of dietary costs for dietary quality differs between socioeconomic and ethnic subgroups. Increasing individual food budgets or decreasing food prices may be effective for the promotion of healthy diets, but differential effects across socioeconomic and ethnic subgroups may be expected.
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