Guillermo Garcia-Garcia
1, Vivekanand Jha
2, on behalf of the World Kidney Day Steering Committee
*1 Nephrology Service, Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, University of Guadalajara Health Sciences Center, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
2 Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India and University of Oxford, UK.
*Corresponding Author: Corresponding: World Kidney Day, International Society of Nephrology, Rues de Fabriques 1B, 1000, Brussels, Belgium. , Email:
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Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education
March 12, 2015 will mark the 10th anniversary of World Kidney Day (WKD), an initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations. Since its inception in 2006, WKD has become the most successful effort ever mounted to raise awareness among decision-makers and the general public about the importance of kidney disease. Each year WKD reminds us that kidney disease is common, harmful and treatable. The focus of WKD 2015 is on CKD in Disadvantaged Populations. This article reviews the key links between poverty and CKD and the consequent implications for the prevention of kidney disease and the care of kidney patients in these populations.
Please cite this paper as: Garcia-Garcia G, Jha V. Chronic kidney disease in disadvantaged populations. J Parathyr Dis 2015; 3(1): 1-5.