Clinical effectiveness is not the only decision criterion for a salt substitute; population-scale implementation also requires assessment of cost and health gain.
For related guides and articles, see the Scientific Salt Research section.
Economic-Evaluation Protocol
A 2021 BMJ Open protocol prespecified how the economic evaluation of SSaSS would be conducted.
Authors included SSaSS investigators such as Ka-Chun Li, Maoyi Tian, Bruce Neal, Jie Yu, Xuejun Yin and Yangfeng Wu.
Combining Costs and Outcomes
The evaluation was designed to combine intervention costs, health-service use and clinical events in one analytical framework.
This allows decision-makers to assess whether additional health gains justify implementation costs.
Scaling Decisions
Even apparently low-cost interventions such as salt substitution involve distribution, education, supply-chain and monitoring costs.
Economic evaluation is therefore a key bridge between trial evidence and national policy.
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