Resource Library

Tools and Toolkits

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Resolve to Save Lives

Playbook with step-by-step guidance for creating an effective digital tool for hypertension management and other chronic disease programs

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World Health Organization, Resolve to Save Lives

Toolkit for communications and advocacy activities to accelerate the adoption of trans fat elimination policies, including social media resources and customizable templates

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Resolve to Save Lives

This framework summarizes the recommended components of a comprehensive dietary sodium reduction program, and provides links to existing implementation tools, examples of successful programs and other resources.

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Resolve to Save Lives

Fact sheet from Resolve to Save Lives with practical steps for countries to develop and implement best practice trans fat elimination policies

Resolve to Save Lives

Executive summary of Resolve to Save Lives’ toolkit to help HIV control programs incorporate a patient-centered approach to hypertension care

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Resolve to Save Lives

A practical guide to a patient-centered approach to integrating hypertension and HIV care using differentiated service delivery

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Vital Strategies

Step-by-step guide to developing front-of-package labels

World Health Organization

A support package to help countries in the European region to initiate or accelerate efforts towards population sodium reduction

A communication guide for patients, nurses, and school staff that features steps and approaches to reduce dietary salt intake.

Salt Reduction Guide for Patients (available in Hindi and Telugu upon request)

Sodium Reduction Counselling Guide For Nurses (available in Hindi and Telugu upon request)

 Also adapted use in Ethiopia by nurses, patients, school teachers and students (Available in Amharic and Oromiffa upon request)

Pan America Health Organization

A report on methods, tools, procedures and key recommendations on how to conduct research into front-of-package labeling

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

A how-to guide in planning and conducting an effective advocacy campaign that aims to strengthen public health policies

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World Health Organization

A resource that provides guidance for governments on how to develop, implement, and strengthen a healthy public food procurement or service on a national or sub-national level

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World Health Organization

A technical package from WHO designed to assist countries with the development, implementation, and monitoring of salt reduction strategies to reduce population salt intake

Pan American Health Organization

A technical package that offers a rationale and recommendations for a population-based approach to reduce dietary salt intake in adults and children in the Americas

Resolve to Save Lives

Excel spreadsheet to assist health facilities register new hypertension patients and calculate facility hypertension control rates (download)

U.S. CDC

Technical package including process improvements that outpatient clinical settings can implement to improve hypertension control rates

Resolve to Save Lives

Example of completed spreadsheet for registering new hypertension patients and calculating facility hypertension control rates (download)

Resolve to Save Lives

Checklist that can be used to survey resources in the clinic setting for a hypertension program

Resolve to Save Lives

Hypertension program monitoring visit checklist

Resolve to Save Lives

Template with proposed members and terms of reference

World Health Organization

WHO HEARTS package tool for treatment protocol development

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World Health Organization

WHO’s technical package for cardiovascular disease management in primary health care