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    Daily food planning for families under Covid-19: combining analytic hierarchy process and linear optimisation

    Aburabara, Leila, Werner-Masters, Katarzyna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-516X and Paucar-Caceres, Alberto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4690-561X (2022) Daily food planning for families under Covid-19: combining analytic hierarchy process and linear optimisation. Health Systems, 11 (3). pp. 232-250. ISSN 2047-6965

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    Abstract

    In many households, preparation of food in normal times proves to be problematic, particularly when parents endeavour to keep their children on a balanced diet. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated this problem imposing the requirement of social distancing, which led to disruptions in the food supply chain and multiplication of responsibilities faced by families with children. The present study revisits the standard “Diet Problem” to address these challenges and to develop a participatory approach to provide a diversified weekly meal plan that is easy and fun but simultaneously complies with the unique requirements of each participant. This is done by providing a novel framework, which combines linear optimisation with the Parsimonious Analytic Hierarchy Process, a method for individual choices. This novel approach to participatory modelling is tested within two young family settings in Brazil. The model produced through this contemporary framework provides a weekly menu that best meets expectations of the members of a young family in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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