world kidney day (wkd) is a joint initiative of the international society of nephrology (isn) and the international federation of kidney foundations (ifkf). seven years on from the first campaign, world kidney day (wkd) has turned into a global phenomenon. on march 13, 2014, medical professionals, government officials, the general public, celebrities and patients took action locally. in 2014, t...

Corresponding author: Robert Atkins. Monash Medical School. Alfred Hospital Dept. Epidemiology & Preventive Med. Victoria Australia. Phone: 61 39903 0555 Fax: 61 39903 0050. E mail: [email protected], [email protected] For the 2010 International Society of Nephrology/International Federation of Kidney Foundations World Kidney Day Steering Committee* (RA) and the International Diabet...

The World Kidney Day was proposed by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF) for reminding the public, government, and medical and healthcare professionals that kidney disease is common, harmful, and treatable besides being very costly and preventable (1). It has been celebrated on every second Thursday of March from 2006 by an inc...

The 11th World Kidney Day will be celebrated on March 10, 2016, around the globe. This annual event, sponsored jointly by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF), has become a highly successful effort to inform the general public and policymakers about the importance and ramifications of kidney disease. In 2016, World Kidney Da...

Twelve March 2015 will mark the 10th anniversary of World Kidney Day (WKD), an initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations. Since its inception in 2006, WKD has become the most successful effort ever mounted to raise awareness among decision-makers and the general public about the importance of kidney disease. Each year WKD remind...

The World Heart Federation is the new name of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology (ISFC), as approved by the General Assembly which met during the World Congress of Cardiology in Rio de Janeiro in April 1998. The organization was formed in 1978 by a merger of the International Society of Cardiology (a professional organization founded in 1946, with a worldwide membership of n...

CONTEXT World kidney day is a yearly global alertness and education ceremony, held on the second Thursday in March. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Directory of open access journals (DOAJ), EMBASE, Google Scholar, PubMed, EBSCO, and Web of Science have been searched. RESULTS Once again we reached to March 14, the world kidney day of 2016. This is the 10th anniversary of world kidney day, a program of ...

INTRODUCTION The proportion of older people in the general population is steadily increasing worldwide, with the most rapid growth in lowand middleincome countries.1 This demographic change is to be celebrated, because it is the consequence of socioeconomic development and better life expectancy. However, population aging also has important implications for society—in diverse areas including he...