Tackling health inequities for children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease – a call to advocacy and action across the life-course

Socioeconomic position (SEP) is a complex construct encompassing a person’s material and social resources and their rank in a social hierarchy.1 Globally, experiencing lower SEP is associated with reduced access to health care and poorer health outcomes. These socioeconomic inequities in health are a stark social injustice and are driven by inequities in the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age (known as the social determinants of health) and the structural determinants that give rise to these conditions.