Unit 3- Disablement and Quality of Life Issues Flashcards
of disabled in US
54.4 million
Medical Model
- Disability is an attributed of a person
- Caused by disease, trauma, or health condition
- Requires intervention (by professional) to correct or compensate for the problem
Social Model
- Disability is a socially created problem
- Caused by accommodating or inflexible environment, brought about by attitudes or features of social environment
- Requires political response or solution
Biopsychosocial Model
- Disability is a consequence of biological, personal, and social forces
- interactions among these factors result in disablement
- dominant perspective behind contemporary disablement frameworks today
Conceptual approaches to disability
- medical model
- social model
- biopsycosocial model
Two contemporary disablement frameworks
- diablement model (by S. Nagi)
- International classification of functioning, disability and health (icf)
Nagi’s disablement model
- 4 distinct by related phenomena basic to rehabilitation
- Terminology selected for prior APTA guide to practice
Disablement
Refers to various impacts of chronic and acute conditions on the functioning of specific body systems, on basic human performance, and on a people’s functioning in necessary, usual, expected, and personally desired roles in society
Disablement Model
- delineates consequences of disease and injury both at the level of the persona nd at the level of society
- the model provides the conceptual basis of all elements of patient management that are provided by PTs
2001 WHO international classification of functioning, disability, and health (IFC)
- WHO revised its original version
- 3 broad components: body functions and structure, activities and participation, and severity and environmental factors.
- now also incorporates social factors
Health condition
term for disease, disorder, injury or trauma and may also include other circumstances (stress, aging, congenital anomaly, genetic predisposition)
Body Function
Physiological functions of body systems (including psychological functioning)
Body Structure
Anatomical parts of the body, such as organs, limbs, and their components
Impairments
problems in the body functions or structure, such as a significant deviation or loss
Contextual factors
Personal and environmental