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Monitoring The Price And Affordability Of Foods And Diets Globally, A Lee, C N. Mhurchu, G Sacks, Boyd A. Swinburn, W Snowdon, S Vandevijvere, C Hawkes, M L'Abbe, M Rayner, D Sanders, S Barquera, Sharon Friel, Bridget P. Kelly, S Kumanyika, T Lobstein, J Ma, J Macmullan, S Mohan, C Monteiro, Bruce Neal, C Walker

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

Food prices and food affordability are important determinants of food choices, obesity and non-communicable diseases. As governments around the world consider policies to promote the consumption of healthier foods, data on the relative price and affordability of foods, with a particular focus on the difference between ‘less healthy’ and ‘healthy’ foods and diets, are urgently needed. This paper briefly reviews past and current approaches to monitoring food prices, and identifies key issues affecting the development of practical tools and methods for food price data collection, analysis and reporting. A step-wise monitoring framework, including measurement indicators, is proposed. ‘Minimal’ data collection …