Mohamed A. Osman, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Ezequiel Bellorín-Font et al.
The health workforce is the cornerstone of any health care system. An adequately trained and sufficiently staffed workforce is essential to reach universal health coverage. In particular, a nephrology workforce is critical to meet the growing worldwide burden of kidney disease. Despite some attempts...
Htay Htay, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Aminu K. Bello et al.
Access to essential medications and health products is critical to effective management of kidney disease. Using data from the ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas multinational cross-sectional survey, global access of patients with kidney disease to essential medications and health products was examined....
Marcello Tonelli, Victoria Nkunu, Cherian Varghese, Ali K. Abu‐Alfa et al.
Secular increases in the burden of kidney failure is a major challenge for health systems worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to growing demand for expensive kidney replacement therapies. In LMICs with limited resources, the priority of providing kidney replacement ...
Aminu K. Bello, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Ezequiel Bellorín-Font et al.
Reliable governance and health financing are critical to the abilities of health systems in different countries to sustainably meet the health needs of their peoples, including those with kidney disease. A comprehensive understanding of existing systems and infrastructure is therefore necessary to g...
Charles R. Swanepoel, Mignon McCulloch, Georgi Abraham, Jo‐Ann Donner et al.
Prevention and early detection of kidney diseases in adults and children should be a priority for any government health department. This is particularly pertinent in the low-middle-income countries, mostly in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, where up to 7 million people die because of...
Meaghan Lunney, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Aminu K. Bello et al.
An international survey led by the International Society of Nephrology in 2016 assessed the current capacity of kidney care worldwide. To better understand how governance and leadership guide kidney care, items pertinent to government priority, advocacy, and guidelines, among others, were examined. ...
Emily See, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Aminu K. Bello et al.
Development and planning of health care services requires robust health information systems to define the burden of disease, inform policy development, and identify opportunities to improve service provision. The global coverage of kidney disease health information systems has not been well reported...
Ikechi G. Okpechi, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Ezequiel Bellorín-Font et al.
Due to the worldwide rising prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD), there is a need to develop strategies through well-designed clinical studies to guide decision making and improve delivery of care to CKD patients. A cross-sectional survey was conducted based on the International Society of Nep...