Preventing cardiovascular disease through salt reduction: Strategies for success
Summarizes RTSL’s approach to sodium reduction, including two page summaries for key interventions (sodium targets, FOPL, food procurement and service, low sodium salt, policy advocacy and communications)
The SHAKE Technical Package for Salt Reduction
A technical package from WHO designed to assist countries with the development, implementation, and monitoring of salt reduction strategies to reduce population salt intake
Understanding the science that supports population-wide salt reduction programs
Article from the Journal of Clinical Hypertension on evidence for salt reduction
Salt-Smart Americas
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
Setting targets for salt level in foods: A five-step approach for low- and middle- income countries
An article that identifies a five-step approach for setting sodium level targets in foods in LMICs
WHO guideline for the pharmacological treatment of hypertension in adults
Updated in 2021
Annotated bibliography: sodium reduction
A collection of literature relevant to the science of salt reduction and on sodium reduction interventions
Selecting Blood Pressure Devices
Short video outlining how to choose a blood pressure device
Measuring Blood Pressure Accurately
Short video with a step-by-step guide for health care workers on how to accurately measure blood pressure
India Hypertension Control Initiative and Simple App Training Manual
Hypertension management training resource for health care workers
Fundamentals for Implementing a Hypertension Program in Resource-Constrained Settings
Online training course aimed at program managers and implementers
PAHO virtual course on the implementation of the HEARTS technical package
Online training course for primary care physicians, nurses and others health workers
Simplified indicator calculator template
Excel spreadsheet to assist health facilities register new hypertension patients and calculate facility hypertension control rates (download)
Team-based hypertension management in primary health care
A guide that expands upon the WHO’s team-based care module of the HEARTS technical package, providing guidance and resources to assist in implementing team-based care for hypertension at the primary health care facility level
Managing Large-Scale Hypertension Control Programs: A Six-Step Guide
Our guide for program managers starting up national or subnational hypertension control programs, broken down into six steps and and supported by practical tools from our hypertension control resource library and the WHO HEARTS technical package and adaptable to the local program and setting.
Million Hearts Hypertension Control Change Package
Technical package including process improvements that outpatient clinical settings can implement to improve hypertension control rates
Simplified indicator calculator example
Example of completed spreadsheet for registering new hypertension patients and calculating facility hypertension control rates (download)
Lives Saved Calculator for Cardiovascular Health Interventions
Calculator modeling the impact of cardiovascular health interventions (including improved hypertension control) by country
Blood pressure measurement device selection in low‐resource settings: Challenges, compromises, and routes to progress
Article published in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension
WHO technical specifications for blood pressure devices
Updated guidance on blood pressure measuring devices (2020)
Hearts in the Americas: Guide and essentials for implementation
Manual for hypertension program implementers at national and subnational levels
Hypertension treatment protocol: West Bengal, India
Sample treatment protocol used by RTSL partners in West Bengal, India
Hypertension treatment protocol: Vietnam
Sample treatment protocol used by RTSL partners in Vietnam
Hypertension treatment protocol: Karnataka, India
Sample treatment protocol used by RTSL partners in Karnataka, India
Hypertension treatment protocol: Nigeria
Sample treatment protocol used by RTSL partners in Nigeria
Hypertension treatment protocol: Bihar, India
Sample treatment protocol used by RTSL partners in Bihar, India
Hypertension treatment protocol: Andhra Pradesh, India
Sample treatment protocol used by RTSL partners in Andhra Pradesh, India
Estimation of the global gap in clinic visits for hypertension care between patient need and physician capacity
Article published in Hypertension
Hypertension treatment protocol: Sri Lanka
Sample treatment protocol used by RTSL partners in Sri Lanka
Dyskalemia risk associated with fixed-dose anti-hypertensive medication combinations
Article published in the Journal of Human Hypertension in September 2021