title: [Kidney issues web portal--a project proposal].
abstract: Chronic kidney disease is a serious medical condition associated with premature mortality, decreased quality of life and increased health care needs. The increasing number of patients, an increasing number of kidney decease replacement therapy and increased total cost of treating end-stage disease are the characteristics ofthis important public health problem. In order to solve this problem the public health approach could be to promote health as a process of training individuals and companies to increase control over determinants of health and so improve their own health. In this case public health service proposed project is "Kidney issues web portal," which would consist of two parts, a public and official. The public portion would allow the education and health promotion by informing the entire population, and an official one would serviced the health professionals with the information needed. The project would be implemented in a series of planned activities throughout seven months. This project would include physicians who participate in the treatment of persons suffering from kidney disease, public health professionals, representatives of health institutions, industry, local authorities and associations of patients as co-operators. The project and the financing of the project would be implemented in three phases (teams formation, project design and implementation phase), and funding would be possible from several sources. The different type of evaluation would be carried out in two phases, process evaluation and finished project evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Teaching Public Health Institute of Split and Dalmatia County, Split, Croatia. ivana_ms@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ivana Marasović
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Susnjara
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007674:Kidney Diseases