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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| author | Robyn G. Langham Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Ann Bonner Alessandro Balducci Li-Li Hsiao Latha A. Kumaraswami Paul Laffin Vassilios Liakopoulos Gamal Saadi Ekamol Tantisattamo Ifeoma Ulasi Siu-Fai Lui |
| author_facet | Robyn G. Langham Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Ann Bonner Alessandro Balducci Li-Li Hsiao Latha A. Kumaraswami Paul Laffin Vassilios Liakopoulos Gamal Saadi Ekamol Tantisattamo Ifeoma Ulasi Siu-Fai Lui |
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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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e099fb7407754a9692c33e1b50cf1ed22022-12-22T00:35:41ZengElsevierNefrología (English Edition)2013-25142022-03-01422113121Kidney health for all: Bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacyRobyn G. Langham0Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh1Ann Bonner2Alessandro Balducci3Li-Li Hsiao4Latha A. Kumaraswami5Paul Laffin6Vassilios Liakopoulos7Gamal Saadi8Ekamol Tantisattamo9Ifeoma Ulasi10Siu-Fai Lui11St. Vincent's Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Corresponding author.Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, USASchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, AustraliaItalian Kidney Foundation, Rome, ItalyBrigham and Women's Hospital, Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, USATamilnad Kidney Research (TANKER) Foundation, The International Federation of Kidney Foundations-World Kidney Alliance (IFKF-WKA), Chennai, IndiaInternational Society of Nephrology, Brussels, BelgiumDivision of Nephrology and Hypertension, 1st Department of Internal Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GreeceNephrology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, EgyptDivision of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, USARenal Unit, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, NigeriaInternational Federation of Kidney Foundations – World Kidney Alliance, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaThe 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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2013251422000645Educational gapEmpowermentHealth literacyHealth policyInformation technologyKidney health |
| spellingShingle | Robyn G. Langham Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Ann Bonner Alessandro Balducci Li-Li Hsiao Latha A. Kumaraswami Paul Laffin Vassilios Liakopoulos Gamal Saadi Ekamol Tantisattamo Ifeoma Ulasi Siu-Fai Lui Kidney health for all: Bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy Nefrología (English Edition) Educational gap Empowerment Health literacy Health policy Information technology Kidney health |
| 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 | Educational gap Empowerment Health literacy Health policy Information technology Kidney health |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2013251422000645 |
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