The increasing cost of healthy food

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-186

  Harrison, Michelle ^a   Lee, Amanda ^b   Findlay, Michael ^a   Nicholls, Ralph ^a   Leonard, Dympna ^a   Martin, Caroline ^a  

^a Queensland Health ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian aborigines; Consumer price index; Cost of living; Economics; Food supply; Inequalities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FOOD; HEALTH FOOD; HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA; COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOOD; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; QUEENSLAND; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77952222985     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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