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SODIUM REDUCTION RESOURCE LIBRARY

Find case studies, fact sheets, advocacy tools and more on sodium reduction interventions

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Designing Front-of-Package Labels to Inform Consumers and Encourage Healthier Food Choices in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Study

Lindsay S. Taillie, et al.

New study co-authored by RTSL suggests that warning labels are more effective for helping consumers avoid nutrients of concern like excess salt, sugar, and fat.

Global overview of government-endorsed nutrition labeling policies of packaged foods: a document review

Ummay Afroza, et al.

New study co-authored by RTSL and our partners in Bangladesh shows which warning labels on packages foods promotes healthy food choices.

Guidelines for Media Planning 

Vital Strategies

Singapore Case Study: Reducing Singaporeans’ High Sodium Intake

Resolve to Save Lives

RTSL-UW Lives Saved Calculator 

University of Washington, Resolve to Save Lives

FOPWL regulations around the globe

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Countering Industry Interference: Food Industry Watch Resources

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Reducing Demand for Unhealthy Food: Resources

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Advocacy Action Guide Four Phases to Health Policy Success

Global health Advocacy Incubator

NOURISHING Database

World Cancer Research Fund

RTSL Global Nutrition Database  for Packaged Foods

Resolve to Save Lives

Getting Fiscal Policies Right: Lessons and recommendations across NCD risk factors

NCD Alliance

Lower Sodium, Longer Lives in India

Resolve to Save LIves

Addressing Unhealthy Diets in India

Resolve to Save Lives: India Country Profile

Resolve to Save Lives

Fiscal policies to promote healthy diets: WHO guideline

World Health Organization

Key Resource

Virtual Course: Regulatory Policies to Prevent Obesity and Diet-related Noncommunicable Diseases

Pan American Health Organization

Tackling NCDs: best buys and other recommended interventions for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, 2nd ed

World Health Organization

Key Resource

Guide to Developing Nutrition Standards

Resolve to Save Lives

Key Resource

Lower sodium, longer lives

Resolve to Save Lives

Saving lives through comprehensive sodium reduction

RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES

Increasing uptake of low-sodium salt

RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES

Nutrient Profile Models: A valuable tool for developing healthy food policies

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

WHO South-East Asia Region Sodium Benchmarks for Packaged Foods

World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office

Selling a sick future: countering harmful marketing to children and young people across risk factors for NCDs

NCD Alliance

Behind the Labels: Big Food’s War on Healthy Food Policies

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing: WHO guideline

World Health Organization

Review of Methods to Determine the Main Sources of Salt in the Diet

Pan American Health Organization

Key Resource

Sodium Reduction Framework

Resolve to Save Lives

Healthy public food procurement and service policies

Resolve to Save Lives

Key Resource

WHO global sodium benchmarks for different food categories, 2nd ed

World Health Organization

WHO Sodium Country Score Card

World Health Organization

Key Resource

What’s in Our Food? A guide to introducing effective front-of-package nutrient labels

Vital Strategies

PAHO Regional Sodium Targets (2021-2025)

Pan American Health Organization

Top tips for sodium reduction

Resolve to Save Lives

Accelerating salt reduction in Europe

World Health Organization

Systematic review on international salt reduction policy in restaurants

Jingmin Ding et al

Warning Labels for Potassium-Enriched Low-Sodium Salts

Resolve to Save Lives

Mass Media Campaigns

Resolve to Save Lives

Salt Reduction Guide for Patients, Nurses, and Schools

Research to support the development of front-of-package labeling regulations for food products in the Americas: Methods, tools, and procedures

Pan America Health Organization

Public health media advocacy action guide: Elements of a media action campaign

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Key Resource

Priority actions to advance population sodium reduction

Nicole Ide et al

Potassium-enriched salt substitutes as a means to lower blood pressure: benefits and risks

Raquel C. Greer et al.

NOURISHING database: Restrict food advertising and other forms of commercial promotion

World Cancer Research Fund International

Estimated population-wide benefits and risks in China of lowering sodium through potassium-enriched salt substitution: Modelling study

Matti Marklund et al.

Resources for healthy public food procurement policies

Resolve to Save Lives

Key Resource

Global sodium reduction strategies course

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Front-of-package labeling as a policy tool for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases in the Americas

Pan American Health Organization

Food marketing exposure and power and their associations with food-related attitudes, beliefs and behaviours: a narrative review

World Health Organization

Front-of-package labelling: Empowering consumers and promoting healthy diets

University of North Carolina

Key Resource

Building momentum: Lessons on implementing a robust front-of-pack food label

World Cancer Research Fund International

Core strategies to increase the uptake and use of potassium-enriched low-sodium salt

Adefunke Ajenikoko et al.

Key Resource

Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet

World Health Organization

Advocacy action guide: A toolkit for strategic policy advocacy campaigns

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Key Resource

Preventing cardiovascular disease through salt reduction: Strategies for success

Resolve to Save Lives

Reducing sodium in your diet

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Key Resource

The SHAKE Technical Package for Salt Reduction

World Health Organization

Understanding the science that supports population-wide salt reduction programs

Jacqui Webster et al.

Salt-Smart Americas

Pan American Health Organization

Setting targets for salt level in foods: A five-step approach for low- and middle- income countries

Shauna M. Downs et al.

Key Resource

Annotated bibliography: sodium reduction

Resolve to Save Lives

Key Resource

WHO global report on sodium intake reduction

World Health Organization

Food taxes for healthy eating

Imperial College Business School

Protecting children from the harmful impact of food marketing: policy brief

World Health Organization

Reducing Premature Mortality from Cardiovascular and Other Non-Communicable Diseases by One Third: Achieving Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 3.4.1

RTSL and Vital Strategies

RTSL and Vital Strategies paper highlights what’s needed to achieve United Nations Sustainability Development Goal for reducing premature deaths from NCDs.

Key Resource

Guideline: sodium intake for adults and children

World Health Organization

PAHO: Protocol for Population Level Sodium Determination in 24‐hour Urine Samples

Pan American Health Organization

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