Towards a common disability assessment framework: theoretical and methodological issues for providing public services and benefits using ICF

Abstract

The detailed description of functioning and disability provided by our methodology can help policy makers and administrators in decision making, on the basis of a description of real needs, and in targeting person-tailored interventions.

Preliminary results of ICF dissemination in primary health care in Mozambique: Sharing the Italian experience

“…Finally, the person-environment interaction classification tree (PEIC Tree), based on the experience of the Italian Collaborating Centre for the WHO Family of International Classifications, was proposed as a tool for defining evaluation outputs, resulting particularly helpful for the possibility to weight the role of the environmental factors in all Activity and Participation categories [15] ( Table IV).…”

The ICF-based functioning profiles of school children in care with the neuropsychiatric community services in the Piedmont region: Evidences for better caring and programming

“…It will be a document to be shared with the family and all those involved, updated with scholastic history and changes or at least every 2 years. It will contain (a) the diagnosis in ICD10; (b) the description of the impairments and the points of strength present in the functions and body structures; (c) the description of A&P domains, considered significant, in terms of capacity and performance as connected with the description of environmental and personal factors which have an impact on the functioning [7,8]; (d) the point of view of the person or whoever represents him/her; (e) a description of the project (aims, indicators, assessments, responsibilities, etc.). The descriptions in points (b) and (c) use the ICF categories at the second level as outline and their definitions as a glossary.…”

Eight years of ICF in Italy: Principles, results and future perspectives

“…The first project has been recently refinanced by the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policy in order to complete the dissemination at national level of an ICF-based checklist for the evaluation of the functioning profile of persons with disabilities who are seeking employment (Conclave et al [8]). The second project will end in May 2010 and proposes a methodological approach and a disability evaluation protocol as a reference framework for all the processes of disability certification (Francescutti et al [9]; Leonardi et al [10]). …”