Introduction:

health determinants influence the health status of populations; the poor class is the most affected by the increase in catastrophic diseases. Chronic renal disease is considered one of them, as a global epidemic, an increase in its incidence, prevalence linked to poverty; it is a devastating reality for those most in need, in which this burden becomes a difficulty.

Objective:

to analyze and describe the interrelationship between poverty and renal disease.

Methods:

a bibliographic review was carried out in the databases PubMed, SciELO, different articles and books that relate poverty with renal disease. Key words in English (poverty, chronic renal disease, acute renal failure, low socioeconomic status, glomerulopathies, tubulo-interstitial nephritis) and their corresponding words in Spanish were used.

Conclusions:

renal diseases are conditioned by poverty in many sectors of the population. It is reaffirmed that chronic renal disease is an environmental problem in a global socioeconomic order having no power of solving current renal health problems in deprived populations.

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