Social and economic determinants of pediatric health inequalities: the model of chronic kidney disease

Social deprivation is associated with poor kidney transplantation outcome in children

“…These interventions need to take into account the different domains of social determinants to identify the specific needs of the patient. 33 METHODS Study design, setting, and population Data were collected from the French Renal Epidemiology and Information Network, an exhaustive national renal replacement therapy registry. 34 The present cohort study included all kidney transplant patients who were registered on the French transplant waiting list before the age of 18 years and who received a first kidney transplant between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2014.…”

The two extremes meet: pediatricians, geriatricians and the life-course approach

“…Pediatricians and geriatricians well know how the outcome of (chronic) conditions is largely related to socio-economic determinants. 36,37 Within this context, it is thus not surprising the capillarity that these specialties have always been looking for in the community, seeking to bridge hospital and primary care as much as possible. It is indeed in such kind of networking that geriatricians and pediatricians may effectively interact and serve institutional/governmental bodies in the definition of cost-effective interventions characterized by continuity of care.…”