Shifting the focus to functioning: essential for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3, inclusive Universal Health Coverage and supporting COVID-19 survivors.
Glob Health Action
; 14(1): 1903214, 2021 01 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1203508
ABSTRACT
If Sustainable Developmental Goal 3 and Universal Health Coverage are to be achieved, functioning is a third health indicator which must be assessed and integrated into global health population-based metrics alongside mortality and morbidity. In this paper, we define functioning according to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and present why functioning is important to measure, especially when considering the need for, and outcome of, rehabilitation and assistive technology. We discuss examples of tools that measure components of functioning through clinical assessment and self-report methodologies, and present the development of a comprehensive population level tool which aligns with the ICF and combines self-report and clinical measurement methods to measure functioning and the need for rehabilitation and AT. Throughout the paper a survivor of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is given as an example to illustrate functioning according to the ICF and how access to the interventions of rehabilitation and assistive technology might be of benefit to improve and optimise his/her functioning. We argue that the Global Health community must take action and ensure that the measurement of functioning is well established, accepted and integrated as the third health indicator following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Disabled Persons
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Coronavirus
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Glob Health Action
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
16549716.2021.1903214
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