The WHO's ICF reflects the modern day thinking about disability and embodies a paradigm shift in the way health and disability are understood and measured. ICF is based on a bio-psychosocial model of functioning and disability, in which functioning and disability are multi-dimensional phenomena experienced at the level of the body, the person, and society. In addition, a classification of environmental factors is included that allows users of the ICF to record the positive or negative impact of the environment on a person's functioning.
After reading this chapter, the reader should be able to:
Understand ICF's model and structure
Appreciate importance of standards to disability statistics
Describe ICF's structure and coding for population data collection
(this link was suggested to me by my classmate Bita Lotfaliei)
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