ICF Beginner's Guide

Health and health-related domains

Describe changes in body function and structure

Capacity

Performance

Body, individual and societal perspectives

Function

Disability

All body functions, activities and participation

Impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions

WHO's framework for the definition, measurement and policy formulations for health and disability

Universal classification for health and disability

Enhance person's functional capacity by enhancing social and personal environment

ICF allows classification of domains of areas of life as well as the environmental factors that improve performance

Activity participation & domains

Body function & structure

Contextual factors

Whole body/body part

Whole person

Whole person in social context

Health condition

Participation

Body function and structure

Activity

Contextual factors

Environmental factors

Personal factors