Fourth Time a Charm?—How to Make the UN High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases Effective
In a new article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. Tom Frieden and colleagues call for a focused strategy and more investment to address the world’s leading killer diseases. The article outlines specific, effective, and measurable steps countries can take to make progress and increase the chances that the upcoming […]
Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes: WHO guideline
Just switching from regular salt to low-sodium alternatives can save lives. WHO now recommends this life-saving strategy pioneered by Resolve to Save Lives to reduce salt intake and its associated health risks.
Webinar: using data on packaged food to drive policy change and save lives
The only resource of its kind, Resolve to Save Lives’ (RTSL) new and improved Global Nutrition Database now includes 55 datasets covering the sugar, sodium, and saturated fat content of packaged foods from 36 countries. The updated database provides more detailed information on national packaged food policies in each country, as well as the updated […]
WHO recommends lower-sodium, potassium-enriched salt in place of table salt
Infographic from Resolve to Save Lives highlighting key points from “Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes: WHO guideline,” why it matters, and what it means for countries.
User Guide for RTSL’s Global Nutrition Database
Detailed user guide to supplement use of Resolve to Save Lives’ Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Foods, an online, open access, centralized platform for category level packaged food data that policy advocates and decisionmakers can reference when developing food policies or tracking country progress.
Designing Front-of-Package Labels to Inform Consumers and Encourage Healthier Food Choices in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Study
This study, co-authored by the RTSL nutrition team, uses focus groups of consumers in Bangladesh to better understand purchasing decisions and effectiveness of nutrition labels. Chief food purchase concerns include that a food has sufficient beneficial nutrients, is free from germs or toxins, and does not contain high levels of nutrients of concern. Results suggest […]
Global overview of government-endorsed nutrition labeling policies of packaged foods: a document review
Clear and accurate nutrition labeling on food products is an important way for consumers to understand what’s in the foods they buy. This new comprehensive review in Frontiers led by partners at the National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh and co-authored by Resolve to Save Lives shows that governments are scaling up action to help consumers make informed food […]
Guidelines for Media Planning
A resource outlining Vital Strategies’ Breakthrough model for planning strategic communication campaigns to achieve measurable public health outcomes.
RTSL-UW Lives Saved Calculator
Models how many lives could be saved in countries around the world by scaling up hypertension control and reducing salt consumption by the year 2040
FOPWL regulations around the globe
Overview of front-of-package warning labelling policies around the world developed by GHAI
Countering Industry Interference: Food Industry Watch Resources
Centralized location for industry alerts, policy briefs, and reports to help organizations stay up-to-date on the ultra-processed food and beverage industry.
Reducing Demand for Unhealthy Food: Resources
Collection of advocacy resources on various health food policies such as Front-of-Package Warning Labels, Marketing Restrictions, Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes, and Trans fatty Acids Eliminations.
Advocacy Action Guide Four Phases to Health Policy Success
Guide developed by the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) to provide public health advocates with strategies, case studies, and lessons from over 40 countries to plan, organize, and implement effective advocacy for health policy outcomes.
NOURISHING Database
The NOURISHING database, built on the NOURISHING policy framework, offers a comprehensive set of policies to guide policymakers, researchers, and civil society in promoting healthy diets and combating obesity and NCDs across ten key action areas.
RTSL Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Foods
Provides centralized access to category level nutrient data for packaged foods sold around the world
Getting Fiscal Policies Right: Lessons and recommendations across NCD risk factors
NCD report highlighting common best practice fiscal policies consistent with NCD prevention as well as measures that are recommended as highly effective in reducing the enormous strain of NCDs.
Lower Sodium, Longer Lives in India
Sodium reduction is the single most important dietary intervention for improving heart health and saving lives in India. Learn more in this resource developed by Resolve to Save Lives.
Addressing Unhealthy Diets in India
Learn more about Resolve to Save Lives’ comprehensive, cost-effective interventions to promote healthier diets and save lives in India.
Resolve to Save Lives: India Country Profile
Learn more about how Resolve to Save Lives is working to end preventable deaths from cardiovascular disease in India.
Fiscal policies to promote healthy diets: WHO guideline
A WHO guideline offering Member States recommendations on implementing fiscal policies, such as taxes and subsidies, to promote healthy diets by influencing consumer behavior through price adjustments at the retail level.
Virtual Course: Regulatory Policies to Prevent Obesity and Diet-related Noncommunicable Diseases
Virtual course developed by PAHO aiming to strengthen capacity to design and advance effective regulatory policies that reduce the demand for and offer of ultra-processed and processed products to prevent obesity and diet-related NCDs in the Region of the Americas.
Tackling NCDs: best buys and other recommended interventions for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, 2nd ed
WHO’s updated list of “best buys” and recommended interventions for addressing NCDs, aligned with the extended Global Action Plan (2013–2030) to help countries achieve the nine voluntary NCD targets and advance SDG 3 on good health and well-being.
Guide to Developing Nutrition Standards
Nutrition standards guide developed by Resolve to Save Lives that governments can use to ensure food and beverages purchased, served and/or sold in government settings such as schools, public hospitals, childcare or child development facilities, correctional facilities and government workplaces are healthy and low in sodium.
Lower sodium, longer lives
Sodium reduction is the single most important dietary intervention for improving heart health and saving lives. Learn more in this resource developed by Resolve to Save Lives.
Saving lives through comprehensive sodium reduction
A six-step guide developed by Resolve to Save Lives that governments can follow to help reduce sodium consumption at the national level.
Increasing uptake of low-sodium salt
Fact sheet highlighting the addition of low-sodium salt to one’s diet to reduce blood pressure and associated risk of heart attack or stroke.
Nutrient Profile Models: A valuable tool for developing healthy food policies
Position paper from GHAI, Resolve to Save Lives and other partners presenting best practices for defining, selecting and using effective NPMs.
WHO South-East Asia Region Sodium Benchmarks for Packaged Foods
A document that tailors the 2021 global sodium benchmarks for packaged food categories to the South-East Asia Region, incorporating regional food sources and sodium levels to support countries in setting feasible reformulation targets and advancing sodium reduction efforts.
Selling a sick future: countering harmful marketing to children and young people across risk factors for NCDs
A guide on how to counter harmful commercial marketing towards children and young people across risk factors for noncommunicable diseases.
Singapore Case Study: Reducing Singaporeans’ High Sodium Intake
A case study on Singapore’s national strategy to reduce sodium intake through the promotion of lower-sodium alternatives