估计健康饮食的成本和负担能力:方法有多重要?
Derek Headey1, Kalle Hirvonen1,2, Harold Alderman1
1The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), United States.
概括
计算健康饮食成本和负担能力 (CoAHD) 的新方法显著减少了全球无法负担得起健康饮食的人数的估计数量,从3.02亿人减少到2.130亿人.
科学领域:
- 营养科学 营养科学
- 全球健康 全球健康
- 粮食安全指标 粮食安全指标
背景情况:
- 健康饮食 (CoAHD) 的成本和负担能力指标越来越多地被用作粮食安全指标.
- 关于各种CoAHD估计方法的灵敏度的研究有限.
- 准确的CoAHD测量对于有效的政策分析和定位至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 引入和评估全球COAHD测量的创新.
- 评估CoAHD估计对人口因素,粮食预算,价格数据和活动水平的敏感性.
- 改进对健康饮食负担能力的人口估计.
主要方法:
- 开发了一个人口扩展因子,以根据国家特定的年龄结构调整健康饮食成本.
- 改善了家庭食品预算的推导.
- 探索了对食品价格数据的敏感性,代表性和覆盖率,以及各种身体活动假设.
主要成果:
- 人口规模扩大和改善粮食预算推导使无法负担健康饮食的人口估计从3.02亿减少到2.130亿.
- 由于食品产品覆盖率较低而进行的调整,在特定地区和食品组中产生了适度的减少.
- 更高的体力活动假设不切实际地增加了无法负担健康饮食的人口比例.
结论:
- 方法选择对CoAHD的估计有很大的影响.
- 在人口规模和粮食预算推导方面的创新提供了更准确的全球 CoAHD 数据.
- 改进的CoAHD估计为更好的粮食安全政策提供了巨大的潜力.
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