The Challenge of Providing Renal Replacement Therapy in Developing Countries: The Latin American Perspective
Gregorio T Obrador, Ximena Rubilar, Evandro Agazzi, Janette Estefan
American Journal of Kidney Diseases: the Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2016, 67 (3): 499-506
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The costs of health care place developing countries under enormous economic pressure. Latin America is a region characterized by wide ethnic and per capita gross domestic product variations among different countries. Chronic kidney failure prevalence and incidence, as well as provision of renal replacement therapy (RRT), have increased in all Latin American countries over the last 20 years. From an ethical point of view, life-sustaining therapies such as RRT should be available to all patients with chronic kidney disease who might benefit. However, even among Latin American countries with similar per capita incomes and health care expenditures, only some have been able to achieve universal access to RRT. This indicates that it is not just a problem of wealth or distribution of scarce health care resources, but one of social justice. Strategies to increase the availability of RRT and renal palliative-supportive care, as well as implementation of interventions to prevent chronic kidney disease development and progression, are needed in Latin America and other developing countries.
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Abdul Khan
Does anyone have similar data for South Asia?
Posted 11 Jan, 2016 at 2:31