Functioning: The third health indicator in the health system and the key indicator for rehabilitation

European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 134-138

  Stucki, Gerold ^a,b,c   Bickenbach, Jerome ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c WHO Collaborating Centre for the Family of International Classifications in Germany (at DIMDI)   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Disability and health; Health systems plans; International classification of functioning; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REHABILITATION; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; STANDARDS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; DISABLED PERSONS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; PHYSICAL AND REHABILITATION MEDICINE; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 85012951129     PISSN: 19739087     EISSN: 19739095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.23736/S1973-9087.17.04565-8     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Brundtland GH. From the World Health Organization. The war against disease: investing in health, investing in our common future. JAMA 2002; 287:444.
2. Brundtland GH. World summit on sustainable development. BMJ (Clinical research ed). 2002;325:399-400.
3. United Nations Development Programme. Sustainable development goals; 2016 [Internet]. Available from: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html [cited 2016, Nov 7].
4. World Health Organization. Research for universal health coverage: World health report; 2013 [Internet]. Geneva. Available from: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85761/2/9789240690837-eng.pdf [cited 2016, Nov 7].
5. World Health Organization. The International Classification of Diseases; [Internet]. Available from: http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/ [cited 2016, Nov 7].
6. World Health Organization. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Geneva: WHO; 2001.
7. World Health Organization. The Constitution of the World Health Organization [Internet]. Available from: http://www.who.int/governance/eb/who-constitution-en.pdf [cited 2016, Nov 7].
8. Stucki G, Cieza A, Melvin J. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF): a unifying model for the conceptual description of the rehabilitation strategy. J Rehabil Med 2007;39:279-85.
9. World Health Organization. Declaration of Alma-Ata; 1978 [Internet]. Available from: http://www.who.int/publications/almaata-declaration-en.pdf [cited 2016, Nov 7].
10. World Health Organization. Universal Health Coverage; [Internet]. Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs395/en/ [cited 2016, Nov 7].
11. Stucki G, Post MWM, editors. The Swiss Spinal Cord Injury (SwiSCI) Cohort Study. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2011;90(11 Supplement):S1-S96.
12. Bickenbach J, Tennant A, Stucki G, editors. Describing the lived experience of Swiss persons with spinal cord injury. J Rehabil Med 2016;48:113-244.
13. World Health Organization. Monitoring, evaluation and review of national health strategies. A country-led platform for information and accountability. Geneva: WHO; 2011.
14. World Health Organization. Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening. Geneva: WHO; 2009.
15. Institute of Medicine. Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. Washington DC: National Academies Press; 2013.
16. Selb M, Kohler F, Robinson Nicol MM, Riberto M, Stucki G, Kennedy C. ICD-11: a comprehensive picture of health, an update on the ICD-ICF joint use initiative. J Rehabil Med 2015;47:2-8.
17. Hopfe M, Stucki G, Marshall R, Twomey CD, Ustun TB, Prodinger B. Capturing patients' needs in casemix: a systematic literature review on the value of adding functioning information in reimbursement systems. BMC Health Serv Res 2016;16:40.
18. Murray CJ, Vos T, Lozano R, Naghavi M, Flaxman AD, Michaud C, et al. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012;380:2197-223.
19. Stucki G. The Olle Hook Lectureship 2015: The World Health Organization's paradigm shift and implementation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health in rehabilitation. J Rehabil Med 2016;48:486-93.
20. Meyer T, Gutenbrunner C, Bickenbach J, Cieza A, Melvin J, Stucki G. Towards a conceptual description of rehabilitation as a health strategy. J Rehabil Med 2011;43:765-9.
21. Gutenbrunner C, Meyer T, Melvin J, Stucki G. Towards a conceptual description of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. J Rehab Med 2011;43:760-4.