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The social determinants of food purchasing practices: who chooses price-before-health, taste-before-price or organic foods in Australia?

Ward, Paul Russell; Mamerow, Loreen; Henderson, Julie Anne; Taylor, Anne; Meyer, Samantha B; Coveney, John David (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 ...

'Health is the number one thing we go for': healthism, citizenship and food choice

Henderson, Julie Anne; Henderson, Julie Anne; Ward, Paul Russell; Coveney, John David; Taylor, Anne (The Australian Sociological Association, 2009)

This paper explores the centrality of pursuit of health to discourse around food purchasing and eating behaviours. Forty-seven participants from metropolitan and rural South Australia were interviewed about how they decided ...