Food reference budgets as a potential policy tool to address food insecurity: lessons learned from a pilot study in 26 european countries
| Autor: | Tess Penne, Bérénice Storms, Elena Carrillo-Álvarez, Tim Goedemé, Hilde Boeckx |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Ciències de la Salut Blanquerna |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
Budgets Male Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Seguretat alimentària--Europa lcsh:Medicine Healthy eating Pilot Projects Food Supply Nutrition Policy Economia domèstica--Comptabilitat--Europa 613 - Higiene en general. Higiene i salut personal 0302 clinical medicine Promotion (rank) Sociology food insecurity Dieta--Costos 030212 general & internal medicine Child media_common Food security Public economics Food-based dietary guidelines Commerce Focus Groups Middle Aged Social engagement Food insecurity Europe Chemistry Female Diet Healthy Adult Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Article 03 medical and health sciences Goods and services Humans reference budgets Biology Poverty cost of a healthy diet 030109 nutrition & dietetics lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Healthy diet Focus group Human medicine Business |
| Zdroj: | RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 16 Issue 1 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 16, Iss 1, p 32 (2018) International journal of environmental research and public health |
| ISSN: | 1661-7827 |
| Popis: | The aim of this article is to present the development of cross-country comparable food reference budgets in 26 European countries, and to discuss their usefulness as an addition to food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) for tackling food insecurity in low-income groups. Reference budgets are illustrative priced baskets containing the minimum goods and services necessary for well-described types of families to have an adequate social participation. This study was conducted starting from national FBDG, which were translated into monthly food baskets. Next, these baskets were validated in terms of their acceptability and feasibility through focus group discussions, and finally they were priced. Along the paper, we show how that food reference budgets hold interesting contributions to the promotion of healthy eating and prevention of food insecurity in low-income contexts in at least four ways: (1) they show how a healthy diet can be achieved with limited economic resources, (2) they bring closer to the citizen a detailed example of how to put FBDG recommendations into practice, (3) they ensure that food security is achieved in an integral way, by comprising the biological but also psychological and social functions of food, and (4) providing routes for further (comparative) research into food insecurity. |
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