International Classification fo Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF)

• The ICF is a classification with the overall aim to ‘provide unified and standard language and framework for the description of health and health-related states’.¹ 
• ICF aims to: provide a scientific basis for understanding and studying health, establish a common language for describing health, allow for comparison internationally, and provide a systematic coding system.
• Can be used in rehabilitation and outcome evaluation.
• Contains two parts: (1) Functioning and Disability and (2) Contextual Factors
• Shares some similarities with the OTPF: body functions, body structures, activity, and participation.

Additional Reading

Exploration of the link between conceptual occupational therapy models and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health

Concepts in occupational therapy in relation to the ICF

1. WHO: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, Geneva, 2001, World Health Organization.[↩]