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Lower sodium, longer lives

Resolve to Save Lives
March 30, 2024
Sodium reduction is the single most important dietary intervention for improving heart health and saving lives
Advocacy and communications
WHO Sodium Country Score Card

WHO Sodium Country Score Card

World Health Organization
March 20, 2024
WHO’s monitoring tool that tracks countries’ progress in implementing policies and programs on population sodium reduction. For other relevant score cards see: Front-of-pack and other interpretive nutrition labelling  Public food…
Advocacy and communications Monitoring and evaluation
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Guide to developing nutrition standards

Resolve to Save Lives
March 1, 2024
Specific, measurable, and enforceable global standards for public food procurement

Program Management for Epidemic Preparedness

Resolve to Save Lives
March 1, 2024
An overview of program management for epidemic preparedness and how to strengthen health security through shared learning and peer exchange.
Brief

Rapid Outbreak Financing to Prevent Epidemics

Resolve to Save Lives
March 1, 2024
An overview of how rapid outbreak financing are crucial to preventing epidemics.
Brief
Understanding, preventing, and stopping epidemics

Understanding, preventing, and stopping epidemics

The Lancet
March 1, 2024
The Smithsonian exhibition, Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World, shows that we cannot wait for the next epidemic—we must act on current information to end preventable outbreaks.
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Saving lives through comprehensive sodium reduction

RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES
February 29, 2024
A six-step guide developed by Resolve to Save Lives that governments can follow to help reduce sodium consumption at the national level.
Advocacy and communications
regulate trans fat even if burden is low

Regulate Trans Fat, Even if Burden is Low

Resolve to Save Lives
February 29, 2024
Fact sheet from Resolve to Save Lives making the case for trans fat regulation in low-burden settings
Advocacy and communications
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Increasing uptake of low-sodium salt

Resolve to Save Lives
February 29, 2024
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.
Advocacy and communications
Designing an optimal digital tool for hypertension and other long-term treatment programs

Designing an optimal digital tool for hypertension and other long-term treatment programs

Resolve to Save Lives
February 29, 2024
Step-by-step guidance for creating an effective digital tool for hypertension management and other chronic disease programs
Tools and toolkits
TFA regulation checklist

Policy Inventory for Effective Trans Fat Regulations

Resolve to Save Lives
February 29, 2024
Checklist to determine if an existing or proposed regulation includes the key provisions necessary to effectively eliminate trans fat
Policy development
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Validated Automated Blood Pressure Devices

Resolve to Save Lives
February 29, 2024
Fact sheet from Resolve to Save Lives on why validated, digital blood pressure monitors are preferred.
Training materials Clinic resources
Nutrient profile models: A valuable tool for developing healthy food policies

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

Global Health Advocacy Incubator
February 23, 2024
Position paper from GHAI, Resolve to Save Lives and other partners presenting best practices for defining, selecting and using effective NPMs.
Implementation Guide for School Food Standards in Uruguay

Implementation Guide for School Food Standards in Uruguay

Uruguay Ministry of Public Health
February 8, 2024
Implementation guide for implementing school nutrition standards. Training materials, for food handlers are also available. (Spanish)
Policy development Policy implementation Tools and toolkits

Blood pressure poster study

RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES
February 2, 2024
A qualitative study conducted by Resolve to Save Lives determined this poster to be the most impactful for encouraging patients to take their blood pressure medications daily. Forty patients from…
Advocacy and communications

Developing the 2024 National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) Annual Operational Plan (AOP)

Resolve to Save Lives
February 2, 2024
An overview of the process of developing the 2024 National Action Plan for Health Security Annual Operational Plan in Nigeria.
Case studies
Timeliness metrics for screening and preventing TB in household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in Kenya

Timeliness metrics for screening and preventing TB in household contacts of pulmonary TB patients in Kenya

IJTLD OPEN
February 1, 2024
Our colleagues assessed whether the 7-1-7”timeliness metric could be implemented in Kenya for screening and tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT), and proposed an adaptation: “3-5-7”.
Journal articles
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Kaiser Permanente Healthy Picks website

KAISER PERMANENTE, HEALTHY PICKS COMMITTEE, UNITED STATES
February 1, 2024
Describes healthy food guidelines and implementation resources for hospital food venues, including patient menus, cafeterias, coffee carts, kiosks, vending and gift shops.
WHO trans fat

WHO fact sheet: trans fat

World Health Organization
January 31, 2024
Key facts on trans fat and WHO's response
Tools and toolkits
CDC Sodium Reduction Tools and Training for Health Professionals website

CDC Sodium Reduction Tools and Training for Health Professionals website

US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control
January 31, 2024
Includes links to implementation and training guidance for implementing sodium reduction in foodservice settings.
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