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Rethinking Health and Rehabilitation - A collection of papers highlighting functioning and rehabilitation

Rethinking Health and Rehabilitation - Towards a Functioning-Centered Health System is a collection of papers in which the long-standing ICF Research Branch Directior, Prof. Gerold Stucki, and Steering Committee member, Prof. Jerome Bickenbach share their insights gain in their collaboration over the last two decades. This book is accessible here for free (https://zenodo.org/records/15315475) and addresses:

  • Functioning as the foundation of health, individual and well-being, and societal welfare
  • Functioning as the third health indicator
  • Rehabilitation as a universal strategy
  • Integration of functioning data into national health information systems
  • A new understanding of disability as a continuum of functioning
  • Bridging rehabilitation and inclusion
  • Methodological and conceptual consequences of the "functioning revolution"

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