Kidney health for all: bridging the gap in kidney health education and literacy.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Langham RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9300568 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature