International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, also known as
ICF, is a
classification of the health components of functioning and disability. After nine years of international revision efforts coordinated by the
World Health Organization (WHO), the
World Health Assembly on May 22, 2001, approved the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and its abbreviation of "ICF." This classification was first created in 1980 and then called the
International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps, or
ICIDH by WHO to provide a unifying framework for classifying the health components of functioning and disability.