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Development of the Spanish Healthy Food Reference Budget for an adequate social participation at the minimum
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Autor/a:
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Carrillo Alvarez, Elena; Cussó Parcerisas, Irene; Riera Romaní, Jordi
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Otros autores:
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Universitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Psicologia, Ciències de l’Educació i de l’Esport Blanquerna; Grup de Recerca en Pedagogia, Societat i Innovació amb el suport de les TIC (PSITIC); Universitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Ciències de la Salut Blanquerna |
Abstract:
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Objective: It has been observed that diet quality and food choices vary depending on socio-economic status (SES), especially when measured through income and educational level. Although the reasons behind these differences are multiple, diet cost is a critical determinant in those groups that spend a higher proportion of their budget on food. Reference budgets are priced baskets containing the minimum goods and services necessary for well-described types of families to have an adequate social participation. In the current paper we describe the development and content of the Spanish Healthy Food Basket (SHFB).
Design: National dietary guidelines were translated into monthly food baskets. Next, these baskets were validated in terms of acceptability and feasibility through focus group discussions, and finally they were priced.
Setting: The focus group discussions and the pricing were performed in
Barcelona, Spain.
Subjects: Twenty adults aged 30–50 years from different SES backgrounds and their children aged 2–22 years participated in three discussion groups.
Results: The SHFB complies with the dietary recommendations for the Spanish population. The monthly cost of this basket ranges from 131·63 € to 573·80 € depending on the type of family.
Conclusions: The SHFB does not have the purpose of prescribing what people should eat, but of estimating a minimum budget threshold below which healthy eating is not possible for well-described types of families. Thus, the SHFB is an
educative guide on how to plan a healthy food budget and orient policies designed to guarantee food access and reduce SES inequalities. |
Fecha de creación:
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2016 |
Materia(s):
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Economia domèstica - comptabilitat Cost i nivell de vida Família Nutrició |
Derechos:
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© L'autor/a. Tots els drets reservats |
Páginas:
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13 p. |
Tipo de documento:
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Artículo Artículo - Versión publicada |
DOI:
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doi:10.1017/S1368980016001026
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Editor:
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Cambridge University Press
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Publish at:
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Public Health Nutrition, 2016
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