The International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps.

Using the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps in surveys: the case of Spain.

A survey was conducted in Spain in 1986 to estimate the number of people with disabilities and to identify the impairments which had given rise to them. The survey also set out to identify the causes of these impairments and to analyse the nature and extent of the handicaps resulting from these impairments and disabilities. The frame of reference for the survey was the WHO International Classif...

Diagnostic assessment and treatment goals in logopedics: impairments, disabilities and handicaps.

This study was aimed to investigate to what extent impairments, disabilities and handicaps are used as diagnostic assessments and treatment goals in logopedics. Traditionally, logopedists are mainly concerned with impairments. These days, increasing attention is demanded for disabilities and handicaps as well. A survey study was carried out on 1,567 patients in logopedic practices in the Nether...

[International classification of impairments, disabilities and handicaps].

Prevalence of disability and handicaps in geriatric population in rural south India.

Proportion of aged persons in India is increasing and is expected to be around 70 million by the end of the year 2000. The epidemiological consequences would be increase in the geriatric problems, particularly, impairments, disabilities and handicaps There are not many community-based studies using the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH). The main obj...

Stuttering and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: an update.

UNLABELLED The World Health Organization (WHO) recently presented a multidimensional classification scheme for describing health status and the experience of disablement. This new framework, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF; WHO, 2001), is a revision of WHO's prior framework for describing the consequences of disorders, the International Classificatio...