The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) offers a comprehensive framework that standardises the description of health status, functioning and disability. Developed ...

The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health is a framework for organizing information on functioning and disability. Functioning, as a concept, ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

Correspondence to Dr Kristina Fagher, Health Sciences, Rehabilitation Medicine Research Group, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; kristina.fagher{at}med.lu.se Physical activity and sports participation ...

An estimated 15% of the world’s population experience some form of disability. Across Europe and Central Asia, persons with disabilities represent one of the largest segments of the population that ...

The line between difference, disability, and disease is constantly shifting, shaped as much by social attitudes as biology. A trait that seems like a simple variation in one context can become a ...

Approximately 1 out of every 20 people in Romania holds a disability certificate as of June 2023—totaling nearly 900,000 individuals, of which roughly 77,000 are children. Persons with disabilities in ...

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the World Bank (WB) have been closely collaborating on disability-assessment reforms and ...