ArticlePublic health nutrition2022
Costing recommended (healthy) and current (unhealthy) diets in urban and inner regional areas of Australia using remote price collection methods.
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- The Effect of Food Vouchers and an Educational Intervention on Promoting Healthy Eating in Vulnerable Families: A Pilot Study.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- How do supermarkets shape the experience of vulnerable people in Australia's food system? A scoping review.Nutrition & dietetics : the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia · 2026Article
- 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
- Harnessing community expertise in understanding food insecurity to inform responses in a local government area in Victoria, Australia: a mixed methods photovoice study.BMC public health · 2023Article
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- 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
- Affordability of Heathy, Equitable and More Sustainable Diets in Low-Income Households in Brisbane before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Retail Food Environment in an Urban Resettlement Colony of Delhi: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo compare the cost and affordability of two fortnightly diets (representing the national guidelines and current consumption) across areas containing Australia's major supermarkets.
designThe Healthy Diets Australian Standardised Affordability and Pricing protocol was used.
settingPrice data were collected online and via phone calls in fifty-one urban and inner regional locations across Australia.
participantsNot applicable.
resultsHealthy diets were consistently less expensive than current (unhealthy) diets. Nonetheless, healthy diets would cost 25-26 % of the disposable income for low-income households and 30-31 % of the poverty line. Differences in gross incomes (the most available income metric which overrepresents disposable income) drove national variations in diet affordability (from 14 % of the median gross household incomes in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory to 25 % of the median gross household income in Tasmania).
conclusionsIn Australian cities and regional areas with major supermarkets, access to affordable diets remains problematic for families receiving low incomes. These findings are likely to be exacerbated in outer regional and remote areas (not included in this study). To make healthy diets economically appealing, policies that reduce the (absolute and relative) costs of healthy diets and increase the incomes of Australians living in poverty are required.
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