Reducing salt intake is an effective way to improve health and reduce the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) burden. The territorial level preventing diseases measures are implemented in the state preventive project “Healthy cities and towns” (project). Objective: to estimate how effective reducing salt intake measures in residents of settlements participating in the project. Materials and methods. The work was carried out within the initiative research “To develop an algorithm for assessing the effectiveness of the state preventive project”. The data of sociological study of the prevalence of behavioral risk factors for NCDs are used. The study includes 18–69 years old respondents fr om 6 regional centers in 6 regions of the Republic of Belarus (n = 1608). Results. 26.1 % of respondents always or often add salt or salty sauces before eating or directly with food, 44.8 % – use during cooking, 15.9 % consume a high salt foods. Such proportion decreases with age. 44.6 % of respondents are well aware about serious health problems possibility from high salt consumption (with women more often than men), 19.7 % pay attention to the salt content on the foods labels, 49.1 % try to lim it high salt foods consumption, 25.3 % buy alternative low salt foods, 45.7 % use without salt spices, 37.4 % apply three or more measures to reduce salt intake. Conclusion. The efficiency of reducing salt consumption measures to disseminate knowledge among the population was demonstrated. This allowed to identify reserve opportunities and target audiences for potential preventive effects.
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