Researchers:
On-demand delivery services provide food (which is ready to eat), alcohol, and nicotine products to your door within two hours. On-demand services are changing the way we access these commodities, but little is known about the public health and health equity impacts of these changes in New Zealand.
Our project team is conducting mixed methods research to understand the public health impacts of on-demand delivery in New Zealand, and consider how our legislation and policies may need to change, to keep up with this technological and social shift.
There are six key components to this research. Some components of this project are as yet unpublished, but please contact us for further information.
Research summary
With the recent growth of on-demand food and beverage services, we have researched how these services are potentially impacting New Zealand's consumer environment and public health. This summary of our findings includes the consideration of whether our current regulatory processes are still relevant in this new environment.
What do on-demand delivery services mean for the health of our communities? (PDF)
Scoping review
A scoping review, which details how and where the public health impacts of on-demand delivery are being studied.
Online on-demand delivery services of food and alcohol: A scoping review of public health impacts (PDF)
Characteristics study
A study where we characterised the on-demand delivery services in New Zealand, as at May 2021. This was published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health:
Describing and characterising on-demand delivery of unhealthy commodities in New Zealand
View the supplementary data file for this study
There is an erratum being processed for Table 1 in this study, view the corrected table.
Healthiness of food
A study where we quantified the healthiness of the food available on-demand in New Zealand, and whether this differed by neighbourhood demographics. This was published in the journal Nutrients:
View the classification manual for this study
Access to on-demand alcohol
A study where we quantified access to on-demand alcohol in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and investigated whether access differed by neighbourhood demographics. This manuscript is currently in preparation.
Policy interviews
For this qualitative study we interviewed a series of regulatory and policy experts, to determine what might need to change in our regulatory environment, to account for the changing nature of access to unhealthy commodities. This manuscript is currently in preparation.
Focus groups
For this qualitative study we conducted focus groups with a diverse range of people who use on-demand services, to find out more about how and why they use these services, and gather their views on the health impacts. This manuscript is currently in preparation.
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