Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa
The Functioning and Disability Reference Group (FDRG) of the World Health Organization’s Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC) Network in 2013 discussed how a person-driven and person-owned mHealth solution could contribute to achieve health equity and universal health coverage through active participation of persons with health conditions, including persons with disabilities and chronic diseases. mICF should expand the multiple layers about what and where a person “is”, by what a person “does”. Using Big Data analytics the platform will support predictive chronic health care.
Impact
The mICF will empower service users (e.g. health, social, education) or their proxies to become “agents” in their new role of “directing” the process of service provision and care. They will be enabled to describe their own abilities in strengths and limitations (functioning) regarding the interaction with the existing environmental barriers and facilitators by using mICF. They will own their data and be free to share with providers and agencies.
Student Experience
Allowed students to interact with an international research network and present at international conferences.
Countries
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa
Impact
Global Partnerships
Institutional Partner(s)
BigMove Institute, The Netherlands, CIF Brasil, Brazil, DEFACTUM, Central Denmark Region and Aarhus University, Denmark, ESTeEC Coimbra, Portugal, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, Medical School Hamburg, Germany, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland, Institute for Neurology and Public Health Carlo Besta, Italy, Silla University, Republic of Korea, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Silla University, Republic of Korea, University of Sydney, Australia, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
Community Partner(s)
Finnish Association of People with Physical Disabilities, Sandra Steiner, ICF Consultant, USA, Team HIM, USA
Industry Partner(s)
Space for Development, South Africa, Stone Three Ventures, South Africa
Key Outcomes
Publications, Copyrights, Spin-offs
Sponsorship
Foreign
Sponsorship Details
Until now we have been sponsored by the Administration of the Western Cape in South Africa and Kela (a government institution for welfare services) in Finland.
