International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, also known as ICF, is a classification of the health components of functioning and disability.

The ICF classification includes more than 1, 400 categories limiting its use in clinical practice.

Classification systems such as the WHO Family of International Classifications, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF ) and the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD ), are commonly used to define and measure the components of health.

After nine years of international revision efforts coordinated by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), the World Health Assembly on May 22, 2001, approved the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and its abbreviation of " ICF.

The ICD and ICF constitute the core classifications in the WHO Family of International Classifications ( WHO-FIC ).

Derived classifications are based on the WHO reference classifications ( i. e. ICD and ICF ).

The WHA is also responsible for the endorsement of the WHO Family of International Classifications, a series of internationally standardized medical classifications, including the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD ) and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF ).

* 1985-National Academy of Sciences reviewed military ICF programs, noting HIF ’ s major advantages clearly but averring that HIF was “ supported primarily by other military programs ”.

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF ) is a framework to measure health and ability by illustrating how these components impact one ’ s function.

The ICF uses a positive, holistic language emphasizing skills, capacities, and strengths of an individual rather than focusing on one ’ s deficits and disabilities.

The dream was to save the world ’ s cranes and that idea has been the driving force behind ICF ever since.

ICF ’ s first home was a horse farm near Baraboo, Wisconsin, leased to them for $ 1 a year.

All aspects of a person ’ s life ( development, participation, and environment ) are incorporated into the ICF instead of solely focusing on his or her diagnosis.

The current ICF creates a more integrative understanding of health forming a comprehensive profile of an individual instead of focusing on one ’ s health condition.

The implications of using the ICF include emphasizing the strengths of individuals, assisting individuals in participating more extensively in society by the use of interventions aimed at enhancing their abilities, and taking into consideration the environmental and personal factors that might hamper one ’ s participation.

ICF Core Sets contain as few as possible, but as many ICF categories as necessary, to describe a patient ’ s level of functioning.

Different ICF codes are needed across the first years of a child ’ s life to capture the growth and development of a disability even when the child ’ s diagnosis does not change.

It oversees the implementation of the International Health Regulations, and publishes a series of medical classifications ; of these, three are overreaching " reference classifications ": the International Statistical Classification of Diseases ( ICD ), the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF ) and the International Classification of Health Interventions ( ICHI ).

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF ), produced by the World Health Organization, distinguishes between body functions ( physiological or psychological, e. g., vision ) and body structures ( anatomical parts, e. g., the eye and related structures ).

The International Canoe Federation ( ICF ), The European Canoe Union ( ECU ) and the British Canoe Union ( BCU ) all hold events in Llangollen.

* International Coach Federation ( ICF )

The ICF ( International Canoe Federation ) has had a limited interest in Dragon Boat Sport since 2005 ( some 3 decades following the start of the modern era of the international sport in Hong Kong ), organising an annual Dragon Boat Championship only for the small number of its Member Canoe Federations, approx 10, with an interest in Dragon Boating.

Further exploration of the relationship between occupational therapy and the components of the ICIDH-2 ( revision of the original International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps ( ICIDH ); later becoming the ICF ) was conducted by McLaughlin Gray.

The International Carrom Federation ( ICF ) was formed in the year 1988 in the city of Chennai, India.

The ICF promulgates International Rules of Carrom ( also termed " The Laws of Carrom ") ICF acts as the governing body of carrom.

Whitewater slalom racing started in Europe and in the 1940s, the International Canoe Federation ( ICF ) was formed to govern the sport.

The International Crane Foundation ( ICF ) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and conservation of the 15 species of cranes.

* International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF )-WHO

* International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF )-CDC

* The Italian Portal of Classifications is the ICF and ICF-CY browsing tool of the Italian Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization for the Family of International Classifications

* International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF )

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ( ICF ) defines disability as an umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions.

The recent World Health Organization ICF Classification ( International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ) takes into account the social aspects of disability and does not see disability only as a ' medical ' or ' biological ' dysfunction.

In contrast to the large mass, complexity and recirculating power of conventional drivers for inertial confinement fusion ( ICF ), antiproton annihilation offers a specific energy of 90 MJ per µg and thus a unique form of energy packaging and delivery.

Na < sup >+</ sup > loss approximately correlates with fluid loss from extracellular fluid ( ECF ), since Na < sup >+</ sup > has a much higher concentration in ECF than intracellular fluid ( ICF ).

The Department of Energy ( DOE ) decided that direct experimentation was the best way to settle the issue, and between 1978 and 1988 ran a series of underground experiments at the Nevada Test Site ( now known as Nevada National Security Site ), that used small nuclear bombs to directly illuminate ICF fuel components with high-energy X-rays ; LLNL ran its program under the name " Halite ", while LANL ran its as " Centurion ".

He also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds ( C-1 1000 m: 1978, C-2 500 m: 1982, 1983 ; C-2 10000 m: 1985 ), three silvers ( C-1 10000 m: 1981, C-2 1000 m: 1982, 1985 ), and three bronzes ( C-1 10000 m: 1975, 1978 ; C-2 1000 m: 1983 ).

Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds ( K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003 ; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999 ; K-1 1000 m: 1997, 1999 ; K-4 200 m: 1995 ), seven silvers ( K-1 200 m: 1995, 2002 ; K-1 500 m: 1995, 2002, 2003 ; K-1 1000 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1999 ), and four bronzes ( K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 1994 ).

Fjeldhelm also won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold ( K-2 1000 m: 2001 ), a silver ( K-2 1000 m: 2002 ), and a bronze ( K-4 200 m: 1998 ).

He has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds ( C-2 500 m: 2007, C-2 1000 m: 2006, C-4 200 m: 2001, 2003, C-4 1000 m: 2001 ), two silvers ( C-2 500 m: 2005, C-4 500 m: 2001 ), and four bronzes ( C-2 500 m: 2006, C-2 1000 m: 2003, 2005 ; C-4 1000 m: 1999 ).

Doktor went on to win 14 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, including two golds ( C-1 200 m: 1998, C-1 500 m: 1997 ), nine silvers ( C-1 200 m: 1997, 1999, 2003 ; C-1 500 m: 1995, 1999 ; C-1 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001 ), and three bronzes ( C-1 500 m: 2003, C-1 1000 m: 1999, C-4 1000 m: 1998 ).

He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds ( C-2 200 m, C-4 200 m, C-4 500 m, C-4 1000 m: all 1999 ), three silvers ( C-4 500 m: 2002, C-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998 ), and two bronzes ( C-4 200 m: 1998, C-4 500 m: 2001 ).

It was formed out of the International Curling Federation ( ICF ), when the push for Olympic Winter Sport status was made.

Largely through the efforts of Waldemar Van B. Claussen of the ACA, representatives of nineteen national clubs met in Copenhagen in 1924 to establish the Internationale Repräsentantenschaft des Kanusport ( IRK ), forerunner of the International Canoe Federation ( ICF ).