Health and Function

Question 1

How does WHO define health?

Answer 1

state of complete physical, psychological and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 2

What are the 3 core elements to successful aging?

Answer 2

• Absence of disease and disability
• High cognitive and physical functioning and
• Active engagement with life

Question 3

What can be defined as the capacity to function across many domains to one’s satisfaction and in spite of one’s medical conditions?

Answer 3

optimal aging

Question 4

What are the 6 domains to optimal aging?

Answer 4

• Physical
• Functional
• Cognitive
• Emotional
• Social
• Spiritual

Question 5

True or False

Optimal aging requires the absence of disease

Answer 5

false

Question 6

The ICF is a classification of health and health-related domains, that help to describe what 3 things?

Answer 6

• Changes in body function and structure
• What a person can do in a standard environment (level of capacity)
• What a person can do in their usual environment (level of performance)

Question 7

Body _____ are the physiological functions of body systems.
Body ______ are anatomical parts of the body.

Answer 7

functions

structures

Question 8

What can be defined as problems in body function or structure such as a significant deviation or loss.?

Answer 8

impairments

Question 9

What can be defined as the execution of a task or action?

Answer 9

activity

Question 10

What can be defined as involvement in a life situation?

Answer 10

participation

Question 11

Activity _____ are difficulties in executing activities.

Answer 11

limitations

Question 12

____ _____ are problems in involvement in life situations.

Answer 12

Participation restrictions

Question 13

The ICF has two parts, each with two components, what are they?

Answer 13

Part 1.  Functioning and Disability
   - Body Functions and Structures
   - Activities and Participation
Part 2. Contextual Factors
   - Environmental Factors
   - Personal Factors

Question 14

The ICF has multiple domains, what is a domain?

Answer 14

a practical and meaningful set of related physiological functions, anatomical structures, actions, tasks, or areas of life

Question 15

Domains can be described at up to _ levels of detail depending on the user’s needs

Answer 15

4

Question 16

The first-level of classification of domains is at the ____ level

Answer 16

chapter

Question 17

The ICF domain list becomes a classification when qualifiers are used. What are qualifiers?

Answer 17

They record the presence and severity of a problem in functioning at the body, person, and societal levels

Question 18

Define the ICF generic qualifier scale

Answer 18

• NO problem: 0-4%
• MILD problem: 2-24%
• MODERATE problem: 25-49%
• SEVERE problem: 50-95%
• COMPLETE problem: 96-100%

Question 19

Because the more than 1400 ICF categories are no practical in daily use the ICF has developed what?

Answer 19

ICF core sets which help users better define high-risk populations by limiting the number of potential ICF categories reported for similar groups of individuals

Question 20

What are the 3 advantages that core sets bring to the table?

Answer 20

• help users continually improve their quality processes
• reduce variability in describing the health condition of similar patient cohorts
• support outcomes research for targeted populations

Question 21

What are the 2 types of core sets?

Answer 21

• comprehensive

- brief