Healthy eating: a matter of prioritisation by households or policymakers?

Mackenbach, Joreintje D.

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“…Nevertheless, we must admit that Hypothesis 2 is confirmed only for higher-value meat and dairy products, fruits, and vegetables, while for cereals, roots, and pulses, the relationship between X 4–7 and Y n is weaker. This agrees with Stewart et al [ 134 ] and Mackenbach [ 27 ], who recently linked the consumption of fruits and vegetables with the way households prioritize healthy eating. According to the FAO [ 3 ], the availability of fruits and vegetables in low-income and lower-middle-income has substantially increased since the 1990s, but it remains far below the 400 g/capita/day consumption target established by the WHO [ 135 , 136 ].…”

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“…Concerning healthy eating, this means that budgetary constraints could result in intuitive consumption decisions based on prices or physical availability of certain foods rather than their health benefits. Mackenbach [ 27 ] and Jetter et al [ 28 ] acknowledge that the recognition of systematic determinants of food choices inspired by affordability and availability factors is crucial in understanding food supply patterns in poorer communities. Although some scholars have advocated for considering the systemic interactions of the three drivers of nutrient supply [ 7 ], this has been rarely done in relation to different country income groups within the same study.…”

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The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

Erokhin

Tianming

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Over the past decades, both the quantity and quality of food supply for millions of people have improved substantially in the course of economic growth across the developing world. However, the number of undernourished people has resumed growth in the 2010s amid food supply disruptions, economic slowdowns, and protectionist restrictions to agricultural trade. Having been common to most nations, these challenges to the food security status of the population still vary depending on the level of economic development and national income of individual countries. In order to explore the long-run determinants of food supply transformations, this study employs five-stage multiple regression analysis to identify the strengths and directions of effects of agricultural production parameters, income level, price indices, food trade, and currency exchange on supply of calories, proteins, and fats across 11 groups of agricultural products in 1980–2018. To address the diversity of effects across developing nations, the study includes 99 countries of Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa categorized as low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income economies. It is found that in low-income countries, food supply parameters are more strongly affected by production factors compared to economic and trade variables. The effect of economic factors on the food supply of higher-value food products, such as meat and dairy products, fruit, and vegetables, increases with the rise in the level of income, but it stays marginal for staples in all three groups of countries. The influence of trade factors on food supply is stronger compared to production and economic parameters in import-dependent economies irrelevant of the gross national income per capita. The approach presented in this paper contributes to the research on how food supply patterns and their determinants evolve in the course of economic transformations in low-income countries.

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confidence: 91%

Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

Erokhin

Tianming

et al. 2021

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“…Other examples are 'food mirages', where grocery stores appear abundant but where healthy foods are inaccessible for lower-income consumers due to high food prices (Breyer & Voss-Andreae, 2013;Short, Guthman, & Raskin, 2007;Sullivan, 2014); and 'food swamps', which are areas with disproportionately higher access to energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods (Luan, Law, & Quick, 2015;Rose, Bodor, Hutchinson, & Swalm, 2010). In these kinds of approaches, the problem of poor diets is largely attributed to unhealthy and unsustainable food environments and the solution is therefore sought in structural fixes around improving food environments, for instance through government interventions (Mackenbach, 2021;van Trier et al, 2021).…”

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The elusiveness of inclusiveness : A practice-based perspective on health and sustainability in urban food practices

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Effective urban food governance requires multiple pathways of transition to a healthy and sustainable food system. (this thesis) 2.Promoting sustainable food consumption practices requires a theory of power. (this thesis) 3.A theoretical lens follows from a hypothesis. 4.The practical experience gained during a PhD conducted at a University of Applied Sciences adds significant value to the PhD trajectory. 5.Working from home fulltime hampers successful PhD writing.'I made it through another day' (Sia, 2021). This has been the soundtrack of the second half of my PhD, written during years with extensive periods of lockdown that were not easy. It has been quite the ride, and I have a lot of people to thank for making it to the finish line. Thanks to my dear promotors, Peter and Sigrid. I could not have dreamed of a better supervisory team! When I started my PhD, I was quite insecure about my capacities. I really appreciated your encouragements to express my voice more clearly and trust myself and my ideas. Peter, you've been in it with me since my MSc thesis back in 2015. You were always a rock, grounding me along the way. Sigrid, it's been such a pleasure working with you! Your endless energy is very inspiring and I very much appreciate the mentor role you have taken up in coaching me, introducing me to many new people and projects, and now also to a great postdoc position where I'm very happy to continue our collaboration.My lovely, lovely Almere people! I could absolutely not have done this without you. Claudia, Koen, Jan-Eelco, thank you for all the fun we had when we still had an office! Such good times in Lancaster, Torino, and at our very own Almere conference. Koen, thanks for the many chats in particular through Teams over the past two years -it's really helped me cope with everything. Jan-Eelco, special thanks for getting me outside of my house during lockdown for our walks -I hope we will continue this in the future! Claudia, the choice for you as my paranymph was very easy to make: such an honour to watch you develop from my intern to the social practice theorist you know are! Thanks for being my paranymph and friend  My other Almere colleagues from team TPO -Dinand, Harrison, Nicolette, Brigitta, Henk, Pat, thank you for sharing the office with me and bringing joy (and plants, Brigitta!) to my office life. And of course a big thank you to all of you at Aeres University of Applied Sciences Almere for allowing me to do my PhD among you. Thanks also to Flevo Campus and Gemeente Almere for supporting the PhD project. Thanks to all my wonderful ENP colleagues -too many to name here. Since I started as a junior researcher in 2016, I have always felt very much at home and accepted in the group. Although the last two years of lockdown after lockdown have meant limited encounters, I have very fond memories of our bustling hallway where the doors were always open. Your collegiality is much appreciated! Alita, Frank, Jillian, Moises, Nila, Pamela, Robin and Sayel , thanks for our amazing China trip! I particularl...

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Children’s education and parents’ dietary nutrient intake: an empirical study based on rural China

Wei

Sun

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This paper, taking the middle-aged and elderly parents in rural families of China as the subject, studies the impact of children’s education on parents’ dietary nutrient intake. After analyzing the data in China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) 2011, this study discovers that China’s rural children’s higher educational level exerts a significant positive impact on the improvement of parents’ food consumption, nutrient intake and diet quality. This indicates that the improvement of rural education can be an effective approach to increase dietary nutrient intake of China’s rural population. The policy implication of this study is to further develop rural basic education, consolidate the coverage of compulsory education, and incorporate nutrition education into national education system.

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Healthy eating: a matter of prioritisation by households or policymakers?

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

The elusiveness of inclusiveness : A practice-based perspective on health and sustainability in urban food practices

Children’s education and parents’ dietary nutrient intake: an empirical study based on rural China

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