This year, 14 March, 2019, World Kidney Day sets out to raise awareness of the high and increasing burden of kidney diseases worldwide and the need for strategies for kidney diseases prevention and management.
Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere calls for universal health coverage (UHC) for prevention and early treatment of kidney disease.
The ultimate goal of a UHC policy is to promote population health by ensuring universal, sustainable and equitable access to essential healthcare of high quality, protecting people from health impoverishment and improving equity in health across socioeconomic groups.
Specifically, WKD calls on everyone to advocate for concrete measures in every country to improve kidney care:
- Encourage and adopt healthy lifestyles (access to clean water, exercise, healthy diet, tobacco control. Many types of kidney diseases can be prevented, delayed and / or kept under control when appropriate prevention measures are in place.
- Make screening for kidney diseases a primary healthcare intervention including access to identification tools (e.g. urine and blood tests). Screening of high risk individuals and early diagnosis and treatment is cost effective to prevent or delay end-stage kidney diseases.
- Ensure kidney patients receive basic health services they need (e.g. blood pressure and cholesterol control, essential medications) to delay disease progression without suffering financial hardship.
- Call for transparent policies governing equitable and sustainable access to advanced health care services (e.g. dialysis and transplantation) and better financial protection (e.g. subsidies) as more resources become available. Breaking down socioeconomic barriers and expanding access to comprehensive services in order to meet the needs of the population is essential to guarantee equitable kidney care and increase quality.
Thank you for reading this. I hope you’ll make this more loud and spread awareness about this day to many people. This awareness will help audience to access information about the various kidney diseases, how to prevent them by bringing changes in daily lifestyle and successfully diagnose it through proper medical treatment. Let us all join hands and continue this chain. Please reblog this post or make your own so that we can reach to maximum people. This is the least we can do and I hope you’ll take a step forward and contribute to increase consciousness.
Amazing post!! Really informative.. Great job!! 😊👌
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Thank you Ananya!🤗
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It’s my pleasure always!! 😊
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Thank you for this informative post and for raising awareness! Kidney diseases are really dangerous and people should be more aware about how serious it is and take precautions! Good work!
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Thank you for taking out time, Huguette! Yes, if kidney diseases aren’t detected and treated at the right time, it can be lethal. Kidneys have a very vital role in the absorption and filtering process.
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Yes exactly 👍 thank you for sharing!
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It’s my pleasure. As I had said, it’s the least I can do.
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Did I spell your name correctly this time?
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Yes you did dear Priya 😌
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Thank God, finally😂🤗
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😂😂 come one now hahah
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Hahaha 😂😂
It’s always so fun interacting with you!
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😂 same here! Hope you had a good day
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Yes. Hope you had a wonderful day too!
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A busy day but is was good thank you 😊
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Oh, you must be having work! But in the end it’s all worth it. Call it a day!
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Yes of course it’s worth it, working is important to me, I get bored without it
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That’s great to hear! I’ve seen people running away from work, choosing leisure and comfort instead. But you are truly one of a kind!👍🏻😊
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Thank you for saying this, it’s nice of you 😊 actually work is so important, it teaches you a lot especially to be responsible and productive and independent mostly
And if you run from work who will pay for your leisure 😌😌 there’s a right time for everything
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Yes, very true! It’s like you just read my mind!
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Good morning 🌞 well happy we are on the same page 😊
Have a great end of the week
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Good afternoon (at least it’s afternoon here but I am assuming its still morning there)☺
Great to hear that and have a great week!
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Yes 10.30 am now
Have a good afternoon then and enjoy the weekend 😊
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Sure. You too!👍😊
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I did not know there was a World Kidney Day! Very interesting and relevant to me with my kidney issues. Thanks for the info! xo
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Thank you for reading Heidi! I really appreciate your time! xo
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I didn’t know that
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Well now you do!👍🏻
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Yeah
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hi… recently my dad passed away due to end-stage renal disease… thank you i found your blogs… actually, due to the case of my father, i would like to help raise awareness in taking care of kidneys through blogging… i am a novice blogger and i thank God i found someone who has the same advocate… ☺
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I’m really sorry to hear this. May your father rest in peace. Thank you for connecting with me. I’m truly blessed. I hope your doing good.🙂
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trying to move on… thank you… this will be my project… hoping i could be of help…
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