WHO - ICF & EBP Flashcards
Provides a standard language and framework for the description of health and health-related domains
INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH (ICF)
help us to describe changes in body function and structure, what a person with a health condition can do in a standard environment (their level of capacity), as well as what they actually do in their usual environment (their level of performance)
INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH (ICF)
all body functions, activities and participation
Functioning
an umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions
Disability
How do we apply the ICF in service provisions?
individual level
institutional level
societal level
How do we apply the ICF in the individual level?
- It can be used as an assessment of individuals
- It can also be used for assessment planning and treatment planning
- It can also be used for the evaluation of the efficacy or effectiveness of your treatment and intervention approaches
- It could be used as a tool to communicate with other healthcare providers and it could also be used by the patients themselves to self-evaluate their functioning or their progress given the intervention
How do we apply the ICF at the institutional level?
- It could be used as educational and training
- It could be used for resource planning and development, quality improvement as well as management and outcome evaluation measures
- For managed care models of healthcare delivery
How do we apply the ICF for the higher level that is at the social level?
- It has something to do with the social policies with the entitlements or distribution of the benefits, disability pensions
- The needs assessment for service delivery and assessment of implementation of mandated accessibility or environmental facilitators and barriers
- The necessary changes to social policy
looks into the functioning and disability within the context of the individual’s activities and participation in everyday life
WHO - ICF Part: Health Conditions
viewed as outcomes of interactions with the health condition and its interactions with the contextual factors
WHO - ICF Part: Functioning and Disability
3 levels of human functioning
- body part
- level of the whole person
- person in the social context
physiological functions of body systems (including psychological functions)
Body Functions
anatomical parts of the body such as organs, limbs and their components
Body Structures
problems in body function or structure such as a significant deviation or loss
Impairments
the execution of a task or action by an individual
Activity
involvement in a life situation
Participation
difficulties an individual may have in executing activities
Activity Limitations
Problems an individual may experience in involvement in life situations. It has something to do with the patient encounters in the daily life situations
Participation Restrictions
make up the physical, social and attitudinal environment in which people live and
conduct their lives; It could be in the family, society, at work place
Environmental Factors