LECTURE 2 - International Classification Functioning, Disability, Health (ICF)

The magnitude of the level of health or severity of the problem at issue.

As one, two, or more numbers after a point.

The ICF was first published in 2001.

Yes, it is self-administered.

Indicates that products for education are a moderate barrier.

The ICF serves as an international standard for framing, describing, recording, and measuring functioning and disability.

Physiological and psychological functions.

Execution of a task or action.

Due to the large social and cultural variance.

The dimensions include impairments at the body level, activity limitations at the individual level, and participation restrictions at the societal level.

To help with social security planning, compensation systems, and policy design and implementation.

Functioning and disability, and contextual factors.

Activity limitations refer to difficulties an individual may have in executing activities.

Difficulties in executing activities.

The context in which one lives and conducts their life, including facilitators or barriers.

The ICF classifies disability as a complex interaction between health conditions and contextual factors.

Chapter 1 focuses on understanding disability.

Involvement in life situations.

The whole notion of classifying may be dehumanizing.

At least one qualifier.

2010

To describe and record information about disability and health.

Limitations include potential oversimplification of complex health issues and challenges in implementation in various contexts.

There are dangers of labeling someone, discrimination, marginalization, and imposing artificial limits on people’s capacities.

Disability is an umbrella term for impairments (of body structures and functions), activity limitations, or participation restrictions.

The ICF was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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The ICF provides a framework for understanding and measuring health and disability in a comprehensive manner.

Impairments refer to problems in body functions and structures at the body level.

Functioning is an umbrella term for body structures and functions, activities, and participation.

To provide a framework for understanding and measuring health and disability.

World Health Organization (WHO)

The main components include body functions and structures, activities, participation, environmental factors, and personal factors.

They all represent different aspects of disability as defined by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).

It classifies health conditions based on their impact on functioning and disability.

WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0

To provide a standard language and framework for describing and understanding health, health-related states, health outcomes, and determinants of health.

To document needs, and develop, implement and evaluate services.

It is deficient for personal factors.

Indicates a severe impairment of the upper extremity.

The interaction between health conditions and contextual factors.

Problems in body functions or structures.

To collect and record data.

Participation restrictions refer to problems an individual may face in involvement in life situations.

Indicates mild difficulty with bathing the whole body with the use of assistive devices that are available to the person in his or her current environment.

ICF stands for International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.

International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health

Anatomical parts of the body.

Problems in involvement.

It improves communication and comparisons across countries, health disciplines, and services.

The ICF can be used for health policy development, research, and clinical practice to improve health outcomes.

Advantages include a holistic approach to health, standardized language, and applicability across different cultures and settings.

Disability is an umbrella term for impairments of body structures and functions, activity limitations, or participation restrictions.

The main purpose of the ICF is to provide a framework for understanding and measuring health and disability.

It provides a systematic coding scheme for health information systems.

Health concerns how long one lives and how well one lives.

To measure health outcomes, quality of life, etc.

To assess client problems, indicate needs for interventions, monitor changes, deliver/evaluate therapies/programs.

To design curriculums, raise awareness, remove social barriers, study health care systems, for health promotion, etc.

To assess eligibility for programs, services, work force accommodations, and benefits.

It encourages one to consider factors at the root of performance difficulty.

It is diagnosis neutral.

It provides a comprehensive inventory.

There are too many categories, numbers, and details.

It allows for comparison with a variety of groups, including healthy groups.

It is considered reductionist.