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Healthy public food procurement

Shaping healthy futures: The case for salt reduction in children and adolescents

Resolve to Save Lives
High salt intake puts India’s children at risk. Learn what policies can reduce consumption and protect the next generation from preventable health threats.

SHAKE the salt habit, 2nd ed.

WHO
WHO’s updated SHAKE technical package offers practical tools countries can use to cut back on salt

Overview: SHAKE the salt habit – second edition

RTSL
This overview of WHO’s updated SHAKE technical package supports advocacy efforts for comprehensive salt reduction programs

Resource Table: SHAKE the salt habit – second edition

RTSL
WHO-recommended policies and interventions that support salt reduction
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Procurement Resource Library

Policies and interventions to create healthy school food environments: WHO guideline

World Health Organization

Healthier food options in Nigeria’s public institutions

Healthy food in schools and other public settings

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Proven ways to address obesity, improve health, increase government revenue, and reduce health care costs

Resolve to Save Lives
Improve public health, increase government revenue, and reduce health care costs by addressing obesity with these proven strategies.

Guide to developing nutrition standards

Resolve to Save Lives
Specific, measurable, and enforceable global standards for public food procurement

Tools for the Assessment of the Public Food Procurement and Policy Landscape

Resolve to Save Lives
A comprehensive assessment of the existing food procurement landscape is crucial to the development, implementation, and evaluation of a healthy public food procurement policy.
Cartoon of RFK Jr. against the food industry in the Wall Street Journal Essay by Tom Friden and Tom Farley "We Battled Big Food. Can RFK, Jr. Succeed Where We Failed?"

For WSJ, our President and CEO Dr. Tom Frieden talks nutrition in the U.S. and beyond

cover page featuring healthy, colorful foods in serving trays

Resolve to Save Lives’ new global guidelines for healthy public food procurement

World health organization GIFNA promotion card with colorful text bubbles emerging from a world map

Meet GIFNA – WHO’s upgraded nutrition policy database

Addressing Unhealthy Diets in India

Five countries commit to implementing comprehensive sodium reduction policies to improve health and save at least 39,000 lives per year

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

Global Health Advocacy Incubator
A position paper from GHAI, Resolve to Save Lives, and partners presenting best practices for defining, selecting, and using effective nutrient profile models in healthy food policy development.
Nutrient profile models: A valuable tool for developing healthy food policies

New tool helps governments combat nutrients of concern

Healthy School Canteen

New South Whales Department of Education, Australia
Resources from the New South Wales Department of Education to support school leaders, canteen managers, parents, and communities in transitioning to healthier school canteens.

Healthy Public Food Procurement and Service Policies Fact Sheet

RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES

Healthy Food and Drink in NSW Health Facilities for Staff and Visitors Framework (2017)

New South Wales Government Health, Australia

Resources for Victoria School Operations: Canteens, Healthy Eating and Other Food Services

Victoria State Government, Department ff Education and Training, Australia
Resources from Victoria’s Department of Education and Training to help schools develop healthy canteens, covering policy, food planners, evaluation tools, and educational materials.

Kaiser Permanente Food Brand Standards website

Kaiser Permanente, United States
Kaiser Permanente’s Food Brand Standards website provides healthy food guidelines and implementation resources for hospital food venues including cafeterias, patient menus, vending, and gift shops.

Healthy Workplace Food & Beverage Toolkit website

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, UNITED STATES

Healthy State Act (2012)

CENTER FOR THE SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, UNITED STATES

Healthy food procurement and nutrition standards in public facilities: evidence synthesis and consensus policy recommendations

RAINE KD ET AL. HEALTH PROMOT CHRONIC DIS PREV CAN. 2018

Impact of the Food-Labeling and Advertising Law Banning Competitive Food and Beverages in Chilean Public Schools, 2014–2016

Massri, et al. Am J Public Health. 2019

Guía Para Tiendas y Cafetines Escolares (Guide for school stores and cafeterias)

EL SALVADOR MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

School nutrition guidelines: overview of the implementation and evaluation

GREGORIC M ET AL. PUBLIC HEALTH NUTR. 2015.

Healthier and more sustainable catering website

PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM