Lifting the Burden

WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disease and Health (ICF) is a classification system for disease-related disability endorsed by all WHO Member States in the 54th World Health Assembly, 2001.

It describes the consequences of living with disease by taking into account the social aspects of disability and the interactions between disability and environmental factors. It has a potentially important role in describing burden of disease which is likely to become increasingly recognized.

There is no question-set that allows headache-related disability to be classified under ICF. Lifting The Burden intends to repair this gap in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, and the Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.

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