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Salt reduction

WHO South-East Asia Region Sodium Benchmarks for Packaged Foods

World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office
Healthier school meals in Karnataka India

Healthier meals in schools throughout Karnataka, India

Preparing food at a school in Nepal

Protecting children from excess salt in Nepal

RTSL welcomes Ethiopia team

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

Pan American Health Organization

Sodium Reduction Framework

Resolve to Save Lives
resources for salt awareness week 2023

Salt Awareness Week: May 15-21, 2023

WHO Regional Office for Europe Nutrient Profile Model (2015)

World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

WHO Nutrient Profile Model for the Western Pacific Region (2016)

​World Health Organization Regional office for the Western Pacific

WHO Nutrient Profile Model for South-East Asia Region (2017)

​World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia

WHO Nutrient Profile Model for the African Region (2019)

​World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa

Sodium Reduction in Health-Care Facilities: B.C.’s Experience (2016)

British Columbia (B.C.) Ministry of Health, Canada

Nutrient profile model for the marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages to children in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (2017)

World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Effectiveness of school food environment policies on children’s dietary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis

MICHA R ET AL. PLOS ONE. 2018.

Estimating the Potential Health Impact and Costs of Implementing a Local Policy for Food Procurement to Reduce the Consumption of Sodium in the County of Los Angeles

Gase LN et al. Am Jour Pub Health. 2011.

CDC’s Sodium Reduction in Communities Program: Evaluating Differential Effects in Food Service Settings, 2013–2016

Jordan et al. Prv Chronic Dis. 2020.

Population-level interventions in government jurisdictions for dietary sodium reduction: a Cochrane Review

BARBERIO AM ET AL. INT J EPIDEMIOL. 2017.

CDC Healthy Food Environments website

US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control

CDC Heathy Foodservice Guidelines website

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
sodium reduction counselling guide for Patients, Nurses, and Schools

Salt Reduction Guide for Patients, Nurses, and Schools

Reducing cardiovascular disease through salt reduction

Resolve to Save Lives
RTSL’s best interventions for saving lives with sodium reduction.
WHO Shake technical package

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

Annotated bibliography: sodium reduction

Resolve to Save Lives

Quezon City’s healthy public food procurement policy: a model for the Philippines and beyond

WHO Sodium Report

Sodium reduction policies could save 7 million lives by 2030