E-Commerce and global dietary health: a longitudinal analysis of food availability and imports pathways across 64 countries (2008–2022)

It is recommended that efforts should be made to strengthen supporting infrastructure such as cold chain logistics to effectively promote the positive impact of e-commerce on dietary health, especially in low-income countries. Concurrently, vigilant monitoring is required to mitigate the exacerbating effects of food imports on dietary health. The higher marginal benefit of e-commerce development on dietary health in low-income countries effectively narrows the dietary health gap with developed nations, thereby advancing global health equity.