Like many ground-breaking innovations, the conceptual thinking that went into The World
Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) …

Together with prevention and promotion, cure and palliation, rehabilitation is one of the five
health strategies recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO)(1, 2). However, due to …

The World Health Organization (WHO) concept of human functioning represents a new way
of thinking about health that has wide-ranging consequences. This article explicates this …

There is an urgent need for the development of rehabilitation care and research (1–4). a
globally accepted conceptual description of rehabilitation based on a unifying model of …

The implementation of functioning by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the third
global health indicator, along with mortality and morbidity, represents a promising …

Abstract The World Health Organization's (WHO) paradigm shift, implied by the launch of the
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), is inextricably …

The concept of functioning pertains to how people function in everyday life, in the
performance of activities, and in the areas of life in which they participate. Functioning is …

Reliable and timely information about the health of populations is part of the World Health
Organization's mandate in the development of international public health policy. To capture …

There is a need to organize rehabilitation and related research into distinct scientific fields in
order to overcome the current limitations of rehabilitation research. Based on the general …

By creating the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) the
World Health Organization (WHO) prepared the ground for a comprehensive understanding …