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Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy
The high burden of kidney disease, global disparities in kidney care, and the poor outcomes of kidney failure place a growing burden on affected individuals and their families, caregivers, and the community at large. Health literacy is the degree to which individuals and organizations have, or equit...
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9113529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35584454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1414-431X2022e12161 |
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author | Langham, R.G. Kalantar-Zadeh, K. Bonner, A. Balducci, A. Hsiao, L.L. Kumaraswami, L.A. Laffin, P. Liakopoulos, V. Saadi, G. Tantisattamo, E. Ulasi, I. Lui, S.F. |
author_facet | Langham, R.G. Kalantar-Zadeh, K. Bonner, A. Balducci, A. Hsiao, L.L. Kumaraswami, L.A. Laffin, P. Liakopoulos, V. Saadi, G. Tantisattamo, E. Ulasi, I. Lui, S.F. |
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description | The high burden of kidney disease, global disparities in kidney care, and the poor outcomes of kidney failure place a growing burden on affected individuals and their families, caregivers, and the community at large. Health literacy is the degree to which individuals and organizations have, or equitably enable individuals to have, the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to make informed health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others. Rather than viewing health literacy as a patient deficit, improving health literacy lies primarily with health care providers communicating and educating effectively in codesigned partnership with those with kidney disease. For kidney policy makers, health literacy is a prerequisite for organizations to transition to a culture that places the person at the center of health care. The growing capability of and access to technology provides new opportunities to enhance education and awareness of kidney disease for all stakeholders. Advances in telecommunication, including social media platforms, can be leveraged to enhance persons’ and providers’ education. The World Kidney Day declares 2022 as the year of “Kidney Health for All” to promote global teamwork in advancing strategies in bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy. Kidney organizations should work toward shifting the patient-deficit health literacy narrative to that of being the responsibility of health care providers and health policy makers. By engaging in and supporting kidney health-centered policy making, community health planning, and health literacy approaches for all, the kidney communities strive to prevent kidney diseases and enable living well with kidney disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-91135292022-05-31 Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy Langham, R.G. Kalantar-Zadeh, K. Bonner, A. Balducci, A. Hsiao, L.L. Kumaraswami, L.A. Laffin, P. Liakopoulos, V. Saadi, G. Tantisattamo, E. Ulasi, I. Lui, S.F. Braz J Med Biol Res Editorial The high burden of kidney disease, global disparities in kidney care, and the poor outcomes of kidney failure place a growing burden on affected individuals and their families, caregivers, and the community at large. Health literacy is the degree to which individuals and organizations have, or equitably enable individuals to have, the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to make informed health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others. Rather than viewing health literacy as a patient deficit, improving health literacy lies primarily with health care providers communicating and educating effectively in codesigned partnership with those with kidney disease. For kidney policy makers, health literacy is a prerequisite for organizations to transition to a culture that places the person at the center of health care. The growing capability of and access to technology provides new opportunities to enhance education and awareness of kidney disease for all stakeholders. Advances in telecommunication, including social media platforms, can be leveraged to enhance persons’ and providers’ education. The World Kidney Day declares 2022 as the year of “Kidney Health for All” to promote global teamwork in advancing strategies in bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy. Kidney organizations should work toward shifting the patient-deficit health literacy narrative to that of being the responsibility of health care providers and health policy makers. By engaging in and supporting kidney health-centered policy making, community health planning, and health literacy approaches for all, the kidney communities strive to prevent kidney diseases and enable living well with kidney disease. Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2022-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9113529/ /pubmed/35584454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1414-431X2022e12161 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Editorial Langham, R.G. Kalantar-Zadeh, K. Bonner, A. Balducci, A. Hsiao, L.L. Kumaraswami, L.A. Laffin, P. Liakopoulos, V. Saadi, G. Tantisattamo, E. Ulasi, I. Lui, S.F. Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy |
title | Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy |
title_full | Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy |
title_fullStr | Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy |
title_full_unstemmed | Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy |
title_short | Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy |
title_sort | kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9113529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35584454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1414-431X2022e12161 |
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