Resumo A elevada carga da doença renal, disparidades globais no cuidado renal e desfechos ruins da insuficiência renal impõem uma sobrecarga crescente aos indivíduos afetados e suas famílias, cuidadores e a própria comunidade geral. Educação em saúde é o grau em que indivíduos e organizações têm, ou que igualmente permitem que indivíduos tenham, capacidade de encontrar, compreender e utilizar informações e serviços para tomar decisões e ações conscientes relacionadas à saúde para si e outros. Mais do que enxergar educação em saúde como um problema dos pacientes, a melhoria dessa educação depende principalmente da comunicação e educação efetiva dos profissionais em parceria com aqueles que apresentam doença renal. Para formuladores de políticas renais, educação em saúde é pré-requisito para que organizações migrem para uma cultura que coloque a pessoa no centro dos cuidados. A crescente capacidade e acesso à tecnologia oferecem novas oportunidades para melhorar educação e conscientização sobre doença renal para todas as partes interessadas. Avanços nas telecomunicações, incluindo redes sociais, podem ajudar a melhorar a educação de pessoas e provedores. O Dia Mundial do Rim declara 2022 como o ano da "Saúde dos Rins para Todos" promovendo trabalho em equipe global no avanço de estratégias para preencher a lacuna na educação e conhecimento em saúde renal. Organizações renais devem trabalhar para mudar a narrativa da educação em saúde como um problema de pacientes, para sendo responsabilidade dos profissionais e formuladores de políticas. Ao engajar-se e apoiar formulação de políticas centradas na saúde renal, planejamento de saúde comunitária e abordagens de educação em saúde para todos, comunidades renais esforçam-se para prevenir doenças renais e permitir viver bem com elas.

Abstract The high burden of kidney disease, global disparities in kidney care, and the poor outcomes of kidney failure place a growing burden on affected individuals and their families, caregivers, and the community at large. Health literacy is the degree to which individuals 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 lies primarily with health care providers communicating and educating effectively in codesigned partnership with those with kidney disease. For kidney policy makers, health literacy is a prerequisite for organizations to transition 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.

Resumo Viver com doença renal crônica (DRC) está associado a dificuldades para os pacientes e seus cuidadores. Capacitar os pacientes e seus cuidadores, incluindo familiares ou amigos envolvidos em seus cuidados, pode ajudar a minimizar a carga e as consequências dos sintomas relacionados à DRC para permitir uma participação efetiva na vida. Há uma necessidade de se ampliar o foco em viver bem com a doença renal e de um reengajamento na vida, com ênfase em pacientes assumindo o controle. O Comitê Diretor Conjunto do Dia Mundial do Rim (DMR) declarou 2021 como o ano de "Viver Bem com Doença Renal", em um esforço para aumentar a educação e a conscientização sobre o importante objetivo do fortalecimento do paciente e maior participação na vida. Isto exige o desenvolvimento e a implementação de medidas de desfechos relatados pelos pacientes que tenham como objetivo avaliar e abordar áreas como a participação na vida dentro dos cuidados de rotina. O assunto poderia ser apoiado por agências reguladoras como uma métrica para o atendimento de qualidade ou para apoiar as reivindicações de rotulagem para medicamentos e dispositivos. As agências de financiamento poderiam estabelecer chamadas direcionadas para pesquisas que abordem as prioridades dos pacientes. Os pacientes com doença renal e seus cuidadores devem se sentir apoiados para viver bem através de esforços conjuntos por parte das comunidades de cuidados renais, inclusive durante a pandemia. No programa de bem-estar geral para pacientes com doenças renais, a necessidade de prevenção deve ser reiterada. Ações de detecção precoce com curso prolongado de bem-estar, apesar da doença renal, após programas eficazes de prevenção secundária e terciária, devem ser promovidas. O DMR 2021 continua a exigir uma maior conscientização da importância de medidas preventivas em todas as populações, profissionais e legisladores, aplicáveis tanto aos países desenvolvidos quanto aos em desenvolvimento.

Abstract Living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with hardships for patients and their care-partners. Empowering patients and their care-partners, including family members or friends involved in their care, may help minimize burden and consequences of CKD-related symptoms to enable life participation. There is a need to broaden the focus on living well with kidney disease and re-engagement in life, including emphasis on patients being in control. The World Kidney Day (WKD) Joint Steering Committee has declared 2021 the year of “Living Well with Kidney Disease” in an effort to increase education and awareness on the important goal of patient empowerment and life participation. This calls for the development and implementation of validated patient-reported outcome measures to assess and address areas of life participation in routine care. It could be supported by regulatory agencies as a metric for quality care or to support labelling claims for medicines and devices. Funding agencies could establish targeted calls for research that address the priorities of patients. Patients with kidney disease and their care-partners should feel supported to live well through concerted efforts by kidney care communities including during pandemics. In the overall wellness program for kidney disease patients, the need for prevention should be reiterated. Early detection with prolonged course of wellness despite kidney disease, after effective secondary and tertiary prevention programs, should be promoted. WKD 2021 continues to call for increased awareness of the importance of preventive measures throughout populations, professionals, and policy makers, applicable to both developed and developing countries.

Living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with hardships for patients and their care-partners. Empowering patients and their care-partners, including family members or friends involved in their care, may help minimize burden and consequences of CKD-related symptoms to enable life participation. There is a need to broaden the focus on living well with kidney disease and re-engagement in life, including emphasis on patients being in control. The World Kidney Day (WKD) Joint Steering Committee has declared 2021 the year of “Living Well with Kidney Disease” in an effort to increase education and awareness on the important goal of patient empowerment and life participation. This calls for the development and implementation of validated patient-reported outcome measures to assess and address areas of life participation in routine care. It could be supported by regulatory agencies as a metric for quality care or to support labelling claims for medicines and devices. Funding agencies could establish targeted calls for research that address the priorities of patients. Patients with kidney disease and their care-partners should feel supported to live well through concerted efforts by kidney care communities including during pandemics. In the overall wellness program for kidney disease patients, the need for prevention should be reiterated. Early detection with prolonged course of wellness despite kidney disease, after effective secondary and tertiary prevention programs, should be promoted. WKD 2021 continues to call for increased awareness of the importance of preventive measures throughout populations, professionals, and policy makers, applicable to both developed and developing countries.

World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group among children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, with glomerulopathies and kidney disease in the setting of diabetes being relatively uncommon. In addition, many children with acute kidney injury will ultimately develop sequelae that may lead to hypertension and CKD in later childhood or in adult life. Children born early or who are small-for date newborns have relatively increased risk for the development of CKD later in life. Persons with a high-risk birth and early childhood history should be watched closely in order to help detect early signs of kidney disease in time to provide effective prevention or treatment. Successful therapy is feasible for advanced CKD in childhood; there is evidence that children fare better than adults, if they receive kidney replacement therapy including dialysis and transplantation, while only a minority of children may require this ultimate intervention Because there are disparities in access to care, effort is needed so that those children with kidney disease, wherever they live, may be treated effectively, irrespective of their geographic or economic circumstances. Our hope is that World Kidney Day will inform the general public, policy makers and caregivers about the needs and possibilities surrounding kidney disease in childhood.

El Día Mundial del Rinón 2016 está dedicado a la nefropatía infantil y a los antecedentes de nefropatía adulta que puede comenzar durante la primera niñez. La insuficiencia renal crónica (IRC) pediátrica difiere de la patología en los adultos dado que el principal grupo diagnóstico entre los niños incluye las anomalías congénitas y los trastornos hereditarios, mientras que las glomerulopatías y la nefropatía en el contexto de la diabetes son relativamente infrecuentes. Asimismo, muchos niños con lesión renal aguda tendrán, en última instancia, secuelas que podrían derivar en hipertensión e IRC durante el resto de la infancia o la vida adulta. Los niños nacidos prematuros o pequeños para la edad gestacional tienen un riesgo relativamente mayor de desarrollar IRC más adelante. Es necesario supervisar atentamente a las personas nacidas por un parto de alto riesgo y con antecedentes durante la primera infancia para detectar a tiempo los signos tempranos de la nefropatía y así lograr la prevención o el tratamiento eficaces. Es posible tratar la IRC avanzada durante la niñez de forma satisfactoria. Según la evidencia, los niños tienen mejor pronóstico que los adultos si reciben tratamiento renal sustitutivo, incluida la diálisis y el trasplante, mientras que solamente una minoría podría necesitar esta última intervención. Dadas las disparidades en el acceso a la atención, se requieren esfuerzos para que los niños con nefropatía puedan recibir un tratamiento eficaz, independientemente de dónde vivan o de las circunstancias geográficas o económicas. Esperamos que el Día Mundial del Rinón brinde información al público en general, a los responsables de formular políticas y a los cuidadores acerca de las necesidades y posibilidades en torno a la nefropatía infantil.

Resumo O Dia Mundial do Rim de 2016 estará focado na doença renal na infância e os antecedentes da doença renal no adulto ,que pode começar na mais tenra infância. A doença renal crônica (DRC) na infância é diferente daquela dos adultos, como o maior grupo de diagnóstico entre as crianças inclui anomalias congênitas e doenças hereditárias, com glomerulopatias e doença renal com diabetes sendo relativamente incomum. Além disso, muitas crianças com lesão renal aguda acabarão por desenvolver sequelas que podem levar à hipertensão e doença renal crônica mais tarde na infância ou na idade adulta. As crianças nascidas precoces ou aquelas que nascem pequenas para a idade gestacional têm relativamente maior risco de desenvolver DRC mais tarde na vida. As pessoas com parto de alto risco e história no início da infância devem ser acompanhadas de perto, a fim de se detectar sinais precoces da doença renal em tempo hábil, para submetê-las à prevenção ou tratamento eficaz. O tratamento pode ser bem-sucedido para DRC avançada na infância; há evidência de que as crianças se saem bem melhor do que os adultos, se receberem terapia de substituição renal, incluindo diálise e transplante, enquanto que apenas uma minoria das crianças podem necessitar desse último. Uma vez que existem disparidades no acesso aos cuidados de saúde, é necessário um esforço de modo a que as crianças com doença renal, onde quer que morem, possam ser tratadas de forma eficaz, independentemente das suas circunstâncias geográficas ou econômicas. Nossa esperança é que o Dia Mundial do Rim, leve informação ao público em geral, aos formuladores de políticas públicas e cuidadores sobre as necessidades e possibilidades que cercam a doença renal na infância.

Abstract World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group among children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, with glomerulopathies and kidney disease in the setting of diabetes being relatively uncommon. In addition, many children with acute kidney injury will ultimately develop sequelae that may lead to hypertension and CKD in later childhood or in adult life. Children born early or who are small-for date newborns have relatively increased risk for the development of CKD later in life. Persons with a high-risk birth and early childhood history should be watched closely in order to help detect early signs of kidney disease in time to provide effective prevention or treatment. Successful therapy is feasible for advanced CKD in childhood; there is evidence that children fare better than adults, if they receive kidney replacement therapy including dialysis and transplantation, while only a minority of children may require this ultimate intervention Because there are disparities in access to care, effort is needed so that those children with kidney disease, wherever they live, may be treated effectively, irrespective of their geographic or economic circumstances. Our hope is that World Kidney Day will inform the general public, policy makers and caregivers about the needs and possibilities surrounding kidney disease in childhood.

World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group among children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, with glomerulopathies and kidney disease in the setting of diabetes being relatively uncommon. In addition, many children with acute kidney injury will ultimately develop sequelae that may lead to hypertension and CKD in later childhood or in adult life. Children born early or who are small-for date newborns have relatively increased risk for the development of CKD later in life. Persons with a high-risk birth and early childhood history should be watched closely in order to help detect early signs of kidney disease in time to provide effective prevention or treatment. Successful therapy is feasible for advanced CKD in childhood; there is evidence that children fare better than adults, if they receive kidney replacement therapy including dialysis and transplantation, while only a minority of children may require this ultimate intervention Because there are disparities in access to care, effort is needed so that those children with kidney disease, wherever they live, may be treated effectively, irrespective of their geographic or economic circumstances. Our hope is that World Kidney Day will inform the general public, policy makers and caregivers about the needs and possibilities surrounding kidney disease in childhood

World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group amongst children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, with glomerulopathies and kidney disease in the setting of diabetes being relatively uncommon. In addition, many children with acute kidney injury will ultimately develop sequelae that may lead to hypertension and CKD in later childhood or in adult life. Children born early or who are small-for-date newborns have relatively increased risk for the development of CKD later in life. Persons with a high-risk birth and early childhood history should be watched closely to help to detect early signs of kidney disease in time to provide effective prevention or treatment. Successful therapy is feasible for advanced CKD in childhood; there is evidence that children fare better than adults, if they receive kidney replacement therapy including dialysis and transplantation, whilst only a minority of children may require this ultimate intervention. Because there are disparities in access to care, effort is needed so that children with kidney disease, wherever they live, may be treated effectively, irrespective of their geographic or economic circumstances. Our hope is that World Kidney Day will inform the general public, policymakers and caregivers about the needs and possibilities surrounding kidney disease in childhood.