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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 poor outcomes of kidney failure bring a concomitant growing burden to persons affected, their families, and carers, and the community at large. Health literacy is the degree to which persons and organizations have or equitably...

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Autores principales: Langham, Robyn G., Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar, Bonner, Ann, Balducci, Alessandro, Hsiao, Li-Li, Kumaraswami, Latha A., Laffin, Paul, Liakopoulos, Vassilios, Saadi, Gamal, Tantisattamo, Ekamol, Ulasi, Ifeoma, Lui, Siu-Fai
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Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9300568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35286597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40620-022-01290-4
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author Langham, Robyn G.
Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar
Bonner, Ann
Balducci, Alessandro
Hsiao, Li-Li
Kumaraswami, Latha A.
Laffin, Paul
Liakopoulos, Vassilios
Saadi, Gamal
Tantisattamo, Ekamol
Ulasi, Ifeoma
Lui, Siu-Fai
author_facet Langham, Robyn G.
Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar
Bonner, Ann
Balducci, Alessandro
Hsiao, Li-Li
Kumaraswami, Latha A.
Laffin, Paul
Liakopoulos, Vassilios
Saadi, Gamal
Tantisattamo, Ekamol
Ulasi, Ifeoma
Lui, Siu-Fai
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description The high burden of kidney disease, global disparities in kidney care, and poor outcomes of kidney failure bring a concomitant growing burden to persons affected, their families, and carers, and the community at large. Health literacy is the degree to which persons 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 largely rests with health care providers communicating and educating effectively in codesigned partnership with those with kidney disease. For kidney policy makers, health literacy provides the imperative to shift organizations 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40620-022-01290-4.
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spelling pubmed-93005682022-07-22 Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy Langham, Robyn G. Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar Bonner, Ann Balducci, Alessandro Hsiao, Li-Li Kumaraswami, Latha A. Laffin, Paul Liakopoulos, Vassilios Saadi, Gamal Tantisattamo, Ekamol Ulasi, Ifeoma Lui, Siu-Fai J Nephrol Commentary The high burden of kidney disease, global disparities in kidney care, and poor outcomes of kidney failure bring a concomitant growing burden to persons affected, their families, and carers, and the community at large. Health literacy is the degree to which persons 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 largely rests with health care providers communicating and educating effectively in codesigned partnership with those with kidney disease. For kidney policy makers, health literacy provides the imperative to shift organizations 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40620-022-01290-4. Springer International Publishing 2022-03-14 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9300568/ /pubmed/35286597 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40620-022-01290-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Langham, Robyn G.
Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar
Bonner, Ann
Balducci, Alessandro
Hsiao, Li-Li
Kumaraswami, Latha A.
Laffin, Paul
Liakopoulos, Vassilios
Saadi, Gamal
Tantisattamo, Ekamol
Ulasi, Ifeoma
Lui, Siu-Fai
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 Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9300568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35286597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40620-022-01290-4
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