International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health – Children and Youth

 
The ICF-CY (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health – Children and Youth) is the first universal classification system of child health

 

ICF-CY provides a common framework and language to document functioning at the body, person, and society levels for children up to seventeen years of age. It has multiple purposes such as use in policy planning, surveillance, and documentation of intervention outcomes.

 

The ICF-CY is also the first unifying framework that attempts to describe the effects of context on child functioning and includes several environmental factors to examine as facilitators or barriers when recording profiles of child functioning. Thus, child health status, developmental characteristics, manifestations of disabilities, and involvement in everyday activities can be examined within the unique context of a child's social and physical environment.

 

The ICF-CY is available to order (http://www.who.int/bookorders) and free to access in an online format (http://www.apps.who.int/classifications/icfbrowser/).

This item was taken from the WHO ICF-CY Developmental Code Sets website. Click here.