Volume 11 Supplement 4
Edited by Carlo Francescutti, Andrea Simoncello and Luigi Tesio
Publication of this supplement was supported by the Italian Ministry of Health (http://www.salute.gov.it/), Ministry of Labour and Social Policies (http://www.lavoro.gov.it/)
What is disability? UN convention on the rights of persons with disability, eligibility criteria and the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health.
Rome, Italy19-20 April 2010
A common framework for describing functional status information is needed in order to make this information comparable and of value. The World Health Organization鈥檚 International Classification of Functioning,...
The Washington Group on Disability Statistics is a voluntary working group made up of representatives of over 100 National Statistical Offices and international, non-governmental and disability organizations t...
This paper reflects on the use of ICF in Ireland, taking as a case study the experience of the first National Disability Survey (NDS). There were four clear effects in Ireland of using ICF as a framework for t...
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in Australia, acts as a philosophical and moral statement and framework guiding integrated and strategic policy across the nation. Broad policy agr...
Starting in January 2011, Switzerland will implement a multidimensional, context-sensitive procedure to establish eligibility in education systems. This paper provides a brief overview of the different eligibi...
This paper approaches the general issue of the complex challenges in the relationship between those who generate data -- researchers, scientists, and state statistical offices -- and those who use data -- rese...
The International Classification of Functioning (ICF) has acquired a central role in the WHO Family of International Classifications and it has been extensively adopted as the reference framework for health-re...
The President of Brazil established an Interministerial Work Group in order to 鈥渆valuate the model of classification and valuation of disabilities used in Brazil and to define the elaboration and adoption of a...
There is a connection between the definition of disability in a person-environment framework, the development of appropriate assessment strategies and instruments, and the logic underpinning the organization o...
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