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Reconnecting Australian consumers and producers: identifying problems of distrust
(Elsevier, 2012)
A growing gap between the production and consumption of food has led to a decline in consumer trust in food, and a desire for increased regulation of food. The aim of this study was to investigate the nature of consumer ...
Understanding the links between resilience and type-2 diabetes self-management: a qualitative study in South Australia
(BioMed Central, 2017-09-21)
Background
Research conducted by Ward, Muller, Tsourtos, et al. (Soc Sci Med 72(7):1140–1148, 2011) has led to the development of the psycho-social interactive model of resilience, which reveals the interaction between ...
Demographic indicators of trust in federal, state and local government: implications for Australian policy makers
(CSIRO Publishing, 2012)
Age, household size, household income, IRSD and ARIA were found to be significant indicators for trust in federal, state and local government. Trust in state government is lower for older respondents and respondents living ...
Operationalising the Theory of Social Quality: analysis of the reliability of an instrument to measure social quality
(Institute for Social Development and Policy Research (Korea), 2010)
The Theory of Social Quality (TSQ) has not yet had extensive empirical testing due to the difficulty of developing a validated and reliable tool to ‘measure’ social quality. A
survey investigating social quality was piloted ...
The social determinants of food purchasing practices: who chooses price-before-health, taste-before-price or organic foods in Australia?
(Scientific Research Publishing Inc., 2012)
A survey of the extent to which cost, taste and health considerations impact food purchasing practices in Australia was conducted. Data were gathered from a national computer assisted telephone survey of 1109 randomly ...
The role of social media in communication about food risks: Views of journalists, food regulators and the food industry
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2016-10-20)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of journalists, food regulators and the food industry representatives on the impact of social media on communication about food risk. The authors identify how ...
Comparative examination of trust during times of a food scandal in Europe and Australia
(Scientific & Academic Publishing, 2012)
This study compared public confidence in truth-telling by food chain actors in selected EU countries where there have been a number of food safety problems, with consumers in Australia where there have been fewer food ...
Management of food incidents by Australian food regulators
(WIley, 2016-01-24)
Aim
This paper explores how food regulators respond to food incidents and the barriers and enablers associated with doing so.
Methods
Twenty‐six semi‐structured interviews lasting between 30 and 60 minutes were ...