ICF and ICF-CY for an innovative holistic approach to persons with chronic conditions

Abstract

This introduction presents a brief review of projects carried out in Italy applying ICF model. ICF allows to capture and appropriately describe human functioning and disability in terms of body functions and body structures, life activities, participation in society, modulating contextual factors. ICF framework allows to have a complex profile of persons with different medical conditions. Several clinical studies have been performed using ICF and ICF-CY, in Italy from the publication of ICF in 2001 and ICF-CY in 2007. Most of them highlight the utility and feasibility of using ICF to describe the functional profiles of patients with different health conditions. The clinical applications of ICF clearly show that ICF-based functional profiles are useful in designing better interventions - directed not only to patients' health condition and symptoms but also to the most important activities of their daily living and environmental factors that may act as barriers or facilitators to the patients' recovery, well-being and participation in society.

Enhancing interprofessional education and practice: Development and implementation of a new graduate-level course using the international classification of functioning, disability, and health

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Brain Reorganization following Intervention in Children with Congenital Hemiplegia: A Systematic Review

“…The type of clinical assessments varied among studies; we therefore grouped the functional motor outcomes in 3 categories, according to the dimensions of the International Classification of Functioning. Disability and Health (ICF-CY): (a) body functions and structures, (b) activities, and (c) participation [22]. (Table 1s summarizes clinical assessment and corresponding results; see Table 1s in the Supplementary Material available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/356275).…”

Unmet Healthcare Needs in People with Disabilities: Comparison with the General Population in Korea

“…In the past, people with disabilities only referred to somatic disability, but in recent years, the concept has been extended to people with significant limitations on the activities of daily and social lives 12. In Korea, while the registration criteria only included physical/visual/auditory impairment and mental retardation in the past, the criteria has been extended to include brain impairment, development delay, mental impairment, renal function impairment, heart function impairment, respiratory function impairment, liver function impairment, intestinal/urinary tract function impairment, epilepsy and facial deformities since 2000.…”