| Description |
x, 328 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Disability and cultural variation: the ICIDH-2 cross-cultural applicability research study / T.B. Üstün, S. Chatterji, J.E. Bickenbach, R.T. Trotter II and S. Saxena -- 2. Objectives and overall plan for the ICIDH-2 cross-cultural applicability research study / S. Chatterji, T.B. Üstün and R.T. Trotter II -- 3. Cross-cultural applicability research (CAR) methods / R.T. Trotter I, J. Rehm, S. Chatterji, R. Room and T.B. Üstün -- 4. Cambodia / Ritu Sadana, Sisokhom Sek and Hourn Kruy Kim -- 5. Canada - Toronto / Angela Paglia, Jürgen Rehm and Robin Room -- 6. Greece / V.G. Mavreas, M. Kontea, M. Asimaki, I. Giouzelis, E. Katsikas, K. Kollias, E. Polyzopoulos, D. Tsiongris and C.N. Stefanis -- 7. India - Bangalore / R. Srinivasa Murthy, S. Chatterji, C.R. Chandrasekhar and K. Sekar -- 8. India - Chennai / R. Thara and T.N. Srinivasan -- 9. India - Delhi / S. Saxena, H. Pal and U. Singh -- 10. Japan / M. Tazaki and Y. Nakane -- 11. Luxembourg / C. B. Pull, A. Sztantics, J.M. Cloos, S. Muller, I. Heuertz and M.C. Pull -- 12. The Netherlands / D. Van Hoeken, Y.F. Heerkens, M.W. De Kleijn-De Vrankriijker and H.W. Hoek -- 13. Nigeria / O. Omigbodun, O. Odejide and J. Morakinyo -- 14. Romania / Radu Vrasti, Aurora Jianu, Ioan Drut, Marina Badoi and Hermine Iobb -- 15. Spain / J.L. Vázquez-Barquero, S. Herrera Castanedo, M. Uriarte Ituiño, I. Lastra Martinez and E. Vázquez Bourgón -- 16. Tunisia / Adel Chaker -- 17. Turkey / Aygün Ertugrul, Berna Ulug, Ahmet Gögüs, Kültegin Ögel, Defne Tamar and Necati Dedeoglu -- 18. United Kingdom / R. Nichol and D. Mumford -- 19. Cross-cultural views on sitgma, valuation, parity and societal values towards disability / R. Room, J. Rehm, R.T. Trotter II, A. Paglia and T.B. Üstün --20. The structure and stability of the proposed international classification / J. Rehm, R.T. Trotter II, S. Chatterji and T.B. Üstün -- 21. Summary and conclusions / T.B. Üstün, S. Chatterji, J.E. Bickenbach, R.T. Trotter II, R. Room, J. Rehm and S. Saxena.bility cla |
| Summary |
Disability is now understood as a complex and universal human phenomenon that manifests itself at the body, person, and social levels. This model has guided the revision of the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Functioning and Disability (ICIDH-2). Yet this approach faces an important challenge to its claim that it can offer a concept of disability applicable across languages and cultures. Is not the experience of disability unique to each individual, and made distinct by differences in the physical, social and cultural contexts in which people live? Indeed, as some have asked, is the search for a universal and transcultural common language for disability simply impossible, since disability and its social construction vary from society to society and from time to time? This book responds to this crucial challenge by presenting the results of an extensive, multi-country investigation into the cultural applicability of the model and concept of disability found in ICIDH-2. Using innovative ethnographic qualitative methods, this research initiative is part of a joint project conducted by WHO and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) aimed at developing disability assessment instruments for comparative statistical purposes and social policy. The results presented here provide an evidence-based argument for a universal model of disability as well as for the cultural applicability of an international common language of disability classification and measurement./ñ̮ |
| Notes |
Published on behalf of the World Health Organization by Hogrefe & Huber Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [323]-328 |
| Subject |
Disability evaluation -- Cross-cultural studies.
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People with disabilities -- Cross-cultural studies.
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People with disabilities -- Functional assessment -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
Üstün, Bedirhan T
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World Health Organization.
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| LC no. |
00105123 |
| ISBN |
088937239X |
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