The status and use of the International Classification of Impairments, disabilities and Handicaps (
ICIDH).
There was much criticism of the
ICIDH by people with disabilities, advocates and disability studies scholars.
(5.) International classification of impairment, disability and handicap (
ICIDH) Geneva: World Health Organization; 1980.
Recognition that disability and disablement can be partly socially constructed, and therefore that lack of participation in society is one of the dimensions of disablement, led to the development of the
ICIDH into the ICIDH-2 (Gate and Niewenhuijsen 2000).
In 1980, WHO approved a sister classification scheme to the ICD, the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (
ICIDH).
Reframing Asperger syndrome: Lessons from other challenges to the diagnostic and statistical manual and
ICIDH approaches.
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ICIDH, ICIDH-2, CIF (Internacional Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, Final Draft, 2001).
There are also questions dealing with functional activities, activities of daily living, and instrumental activities of daily living that are derived from the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (
ICIDH).
The definition was based on the World Health Organisation's International Classification for Illness, Disease and Handicap (
ICIDH).
This questionnaire is based on the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (
ICIDH), the precursor of the present International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (World Health Organization, n.d.).