From codes to language: Is the ICF a classification system or a dictionary?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2011, Pages

  Tesio, Luigi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOK; CLASSIFICATION; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; EDITORIAL; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES;

DICTIONARIES, MEDICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79957825738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-S4-S2     Document Type: Review

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