Socioeconomic Position and Health Among Children and Adolescents With CKD Across the Life-Course.

Kidney Int Rep

School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Published: May 2024

Children and adolescents in families of lower socioeconomic position (SEP) experience an inequitable burden of reduced access to healthcare and poorer health. For children living with chronic kidney disease (CKD), disadvantaged SEP may exacerbate their considerable disease burden. Across the life-course, CKD may also compromise the SEP of families and young people, leading to accumulating health and socioeconomic disadvantage. This narrative review summarizes the current evidence on relationships of SEP with kidney care and health among children and adolescents with CKD from a life-course approach, including impacts of family SEP on kidney care and health, and bidirectional impacts of CKD on SEP. It highlights relevant conceptual models from social epidemiology, current evidence, clinical and policy implications, and provides directions for future research. Reflecting the balance of available evidence, we focus primarily on high-income countries (HICs), with an overview of key issues in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Overall, a growing body of evidence indicates sobering socioeconomic inequities in health and kidney care among children and adolescents with CKD, and adverse socioeconomic impacts of CKD. Dedicated efforts to tackle inequities are critical to ensuring that all young people with CKD have the opportunity to live long and flourishing lives. To prevent accumulating disadvantage, the global nephrology community must advocate for local government action on upstream social determinants of health; and adopt a life-course approach to kidney care that proactively identifies and addresses unmet social needs, targets intervening factors between SEP and health, and minimizes adverse socioeconomic outcomes across financial, educational and vocational domains.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11068961PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2024.01.042DOI Listing

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