Instrument to Assess the Need of Disabled Persons for Rehabilitation Measures Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health

摘要

This paper introduces a special software product to assess the need of disabled persons for rehabilitation. It is based on a codifier of disability categories which are differentiated according to the primary type of assistance. Depending on impairments severity of body functions and structures and using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health it allows to choose rehabilitation services and technical aids for rehabilitation when making the Individual Rehabilitation Program. The obtained condition codes of a disabled person can be used to electronically record measures on a social card of a citizen, to control the implementation of rehabilitation measures, to analyze the needs in various kinds of assistance and accordingly to plan a budget for different levels etc. The software product has been developed in DBMS Cache in programming environment qWord by SP.ARM Company (St.Petersburg, Russia). The software is multilingual and can be adapted for almost any national language.