World Kidney Day 2021 | March 11 - Nepal Health Magazine

World Kidney Day is a global campaign celebrated in March 11,2021 . every year with the aim to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys. World Kidney Day is celebrated annually . We do it all to create awareness. Awareness about preventive behaviors, awareness about risk factors, and awareness about how to live with a kidney disease. We do this because we want kidney health for all.

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), its associated symptoms, and its treatment – including medications, dietary and fluid restrictions, and kidney replacement therapy – can disrupt and constrain daily living and impair the quality of life of patients and their family members including treatment satisfaction and clinical outcomes. There is an increasing recognition of the need to identify and address patient priorities, values and goals in order to advance research, practice and policy which improve the quality of life of people with CKD.
(World Kidney Day, 2020) Regardless of the type of kidney disease or treatment stage, patients want to be able to live well, maintain their role and social functioning, protect some semblance of normality, and have a sense of control over their health and wellbeing. (World Kidney Day, 2020) With health professionals consistently giving higher priority to mortality and hospitalization, and patients prioritizing those outcomes which impact their life, such as the ability to travel, advancing education, engagement and shared decision-making is vital.

World Kidney Day is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF).

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Mission

World Kidney Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys to our overall health and to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide.

Objectives

Raise awareness about our “amazing kidneys” Highlight that diabetes and high blood pressure are key risk factors for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).
Encourage systematic screening of all patients with diabetes and hypertension for CKD.
Encourage preventive behaviours.
Educate all medical professionals about their key role in detecting and reducing the risk of CKD, particularly in high risk populations.
Stress the important role of local and national health authorities in controlling the CKD epidemic. On World Kidney Day all governments are encouraged to take action and invest in further kidney screening.
Encourage Transplantation as a best-outcome option for kidney failure, and the act of organ donation as a life-saving initiative.

World Kidney Day 2021: Living Well With Kidney Disease Nepal Health magazine

History of World Kidney Day

World Kidney Day started in 2006 and has not stopped growing ever since. Every year, the campaign highlights a particular theme.

2021: Living well with kidney
2020 Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere – from Prevention to Detection and Equitable Access to Care
2019 Kidney Health for Everyone, Everywhere
2018 Kidneys & Women’s Health. Include, Value, Empower
2017 Kidney Disease & Obesity – Healthy Lifestyle for Healthy Kidneys
2016 Kidney Disease & Children – Act Early to Prevent It!
2015 Kidney Health for All
2014 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and aging
2013 Kidneys for Life – Stop Kidney Attack!
2012 Donate – Kidneys for Life – Receive
2011 Protect your kidneys: Save your heart
2010 Protect your kidneys: Control diabetes
2009 Protect your kidneys: Keep your pressure down
2008 Your amazing kidneys!
2007 CKD: Common, harmful and treatable
2006 Are your kidneys OK?

World Kidney Day 2021 Theme

The World Kidney Day Steering Committee has declared 2021 the year of “Living Well with Kidney Disease”. This has been done in order to both increase education and awareness about effective symptom management and patient empowerment, with the ultimate goal of encouraging life participation. Whilst effective measures to prevent kidney disease and its progression are important, patients with kidney disease – including those who depend on dialysis and transplantation – and their care-partners should also feel supported, especially during pandemics and other challenging periods, by the concerted efforts of kidney care communities. The World Kidney Day Steering Committee calls for the inclusion of life participation as a key focus in the care of patients with CKD and as a building block towards delivering the ultimate goal of living well with kidney disease.

Patients with CKD and their family members or other care-partners should be empowered to achieve the health outcomes and life goals that are meaningful and important to them. This will require patients to understand their role, to have the necessary knowledge to be able to engage with clinicians in shared decision-making, as well as developing the skills and support for effective self-management.
We further advocate for strengthened partnership with patients in the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions for practice and policy settings, that enable patients to live well. This needs to be supported by consistent, accessible and meaningful communication.
We also call for greater emphasis on a strengths-based approach which encompasses strategies to support patient resilience, harness social connections, build patient awareness and knowledge, facilitate access to support, and establish confidence and control in self-management.
We call for more effective and more integrated and holistic symptom management for all patients with kidney disease beyond traditional kidney therapies including effective strategies to identify and manage symptoms that cause suffering including pain, sleep issues, anxiety, depression, stress, mobility, frailty, and others and ask for more education and management strategies to alleviate these symptoms so that patients and their care-partners can have a better health-related quality of life.

We must move beyond the status quo and advance patient-centeredness in research, practice and policy. Patient empowerment, partnership and improved communications, combined with a paradigm shift towards a strengths-based approach to care, can inspire confidence and hope in patients that they can live well with CKD.

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