Navigating to Kidney Health Equity

Umeukeje, Ebele M.

doi:10.1681/asn.2022040421

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“…A major strength of our study was the successful engagement of a sample of racial-ethnic minority diverse patients, who serve as key members of the ecosystem to ultimately achieve kidney health equity. 34 …”

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Feasibility of a Peer Mentor Training Program for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: An Educational Program Evaluation

Golestaneh¹,

Golovey²,

Navarro-Torres³

et al. 2023

Kidney Medicine

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Feasibility of a Peer Mentor Training Program for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: An Educational Program Evaluation

Golestaneh¹,

Golovey²,

Navarro-Torres³

et al. 2023

Kidney Medicine

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“…To achieve these lofty aims, it is critical to critique, rethink, and explicitly articulate the hypotheses we test regarding why neurologic inequities in disease, health, and well-being exist. The penultimate aim of achieving health equity remains ill-defined and unclear, 40 exacerbating the challenges to achieve equity in neurologic diseases and other health outcomes. It also is critical to engaging literature from nonmedical fields to facilitate looking beyond biological, behavioral, and health care mechanisms in neurology and related fields.…”

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Determinants of Inequities in Neurologic Disease, Health, and Well-being

Griffith,

Towfighi,

Manson

et al. 2023

Neurology

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A National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke working group developed the Determinants of Inequities in Neurological Disease, Health, and Well-being framework. Our goal was to guide and inspire a new generation of neurologic research that pushes the field to design and test new approaches in pursuit of health equity, population health, and social justice. We seek to expand the lens of those looking to reduce or eliminate racial, socioeconomic status, and other inequities in neurologic disease, health, and well-being to improve our collective ability to create research, programs, and policies that lead to larger, more impactful, and more sustainable change in neurologic disease patterns. In this context, we outline a framework that includes and highlights “upstream” factors in the hopes of enhancing the focus of research, programmatic, and policy efforts to reduce and eliminate inequities in neurologic health and well-being. We explicitly discuss racism and other structural factors to clarify that social determinants are not natural and unchangeable. Populations with a disproportionate burden of neurologic disease are not inherently deficient, despite what some approaches to framing health inequities imply. The framework is presented linearly, but the pathways linking the determinants of neurologic disease, health, and well-being are far more complex than those demonstrated by the arrows included in the figure. The framework highlights the different levels and scale of causation, including the structural and intermediary social determinants and their impact on neurologic health. We offer this framework to refine efforts to contextualize the interpretation of neurologic research findings and suggest new avenues for their application. We illustrate how behavioral and biological factors occur in a social and economic context, factors that have been understudied as points of intervention to reduce inequities in neurologic disease. Considering social and structural determinants of health provides promising new opportunities to achieve neurologic health equity, reach social justice, and improve our science. Extending our work in this fashion is not simply about health equity or social justice but to fundamentally improve the quality of neurologic research by enhancing underlying theory and improving study design and implementation.

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“…In recent years, health equity has become a universal goal. 1 However, when compared with investments in biomedical innovations, investments in interventions to achieve health equity have received little attention. 2,3 Understanding how structural racism and systemic racism operate and affect health is important, but those insights alone will not lead to health equity.…”

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“…2,3 Understanding how structural racism and systemic racism operate and affect health is important, but those insights alone will not lead to health equity. 1 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health equity science is "science that investigates the underlying contributors to health inequities and builds an evidence base that will guide action across the domains of programs, surveillance, policy, communication, and scientific inquiry to move toward eliminating, rather than simply documenting, inequities." 4 A fundamental challenge of health equity science is how to increase the capacity of individuals and groups to apply scientific principles and tools with a clear vision of what the nation and the world would look like after health equity is achieved.…”

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“…6,7 So far, an agreed-upon framework that operationally defines what it means to achieve health equity does not exist. 1 Antiracism is an educational and organizing framework that seeks to help individuals and communities create a vision of their goals and objectives, not simply to identify the problem or obstacles to health equity. 8 An antiracism approach often includes a structural analysis that recognizes that the world is controlled by systems and structures with traceable historical roots that unfairly disadvantage some, unfairly advantage others, and sap the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources.…”

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Navigating to Kidney Health Equity

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Feasibility of a Peer Mentor Training Program for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: An Educational Program Evaluation

Feasibility of a Peer Mentor Training Program for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: An Educational Program Evaluation

Determinants of Inequities in Neurologic Disease, Health, and Well-being

Antiracism and Health Equity Science: Overcoming Scientific Obstacles to Health Equity

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