The International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health.

By Douglas E. Simkiss. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 2007

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Impact of Social Isolation Due to COVID-19 on Health in Older People: Mental and Physical Effects and Recommendations (2020, neutral): “The World Health Organization (WHO) describes a close relationship between physical and mental functions with the level of self-governance and social participation in the community[8].”
Disability and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Multidimensional Study (2013, background): “Disability denotes “the negative aspects of the interaction between an individual (with a health condition) and that individual’s contextual factors (environmental and personal factors)” (WHO, 2001, p. 213).”
Disability and the Rural Labor Market in India: Evidence for Males in Tamil Nadu (2008, background): “Conceptually, ICF is presented as an integration of the medical and the social models (WHO, 2001; p. 20).”
Evidence for the Domains Supporting the Construct of Intrinsic Capacity (2018, neutral): “In the following sections describing the links between body functions and functional loss, the use of “disability” may reflect the sense coming from the literature, which might be narrower and more specific than what the ICF model implies.”