National approaches to monitoring population salt intake: a trade-off between accuracy and practicality?

ABSTRACT:

Aims

There is strong evidence that diets high in salt are bad for health and that salt reduction strategies are cost effective. However, whilst it is clear that most people are eating too much salt, obtaining an accurate assessment of population salt intake is not straightforward, particularly in resource poor settings. The objective of this study is to identify what approaches governments are taking to monitoring salt intake, with the ultimate goal of identifying what actions are needed to address challenges to monitoring salt intake, especially in low and middle-income countries.

Methods and results

A written survey was issued to governments to establish the details of their monitoring methods. Of the 30 countries that reported conducting formal government salt monitoring

SUBMITTER: Hawkes C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3474782 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature