RHS 403 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Royal Horticultural Society, Sides Of An Equation, Disability
12 Oct 2018
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RHS 403
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
RHS 403
Lecture 1
Conceptualizing Functioning, Health, and Disability
Past Models to Conceptualize Health and Disability
• The medical model
o Focused on specific medical conditions viewed as
“problems”
▪ Intrinsic to individuals experiencing them
o Emphasized diagnosis and corresponding limitation or
functional incapacity relative to societal norm
• The social model
o Reaction to medical model
o Emphasized societal and environmental barriers as
primary contributors to disability
o Key component:
▪ Equality
o Paralleled civil rights/human rights movements
• The biopsychosocial model
o The alternative to models
▪ Medical
▪ Social
o Complex interaction of:
▪ Biological factors
▪ Psychological factors
▪ Social factors
▪ In combination that lay role in individual’s
ability to function
The experience of disability
• Result of personal factors and circumstances individuals
encounter within his or her own environment
o Social
o Physical
• Dynamic interaction between individuals’ experience with
disability
o Functional capacity within a given context
Classifying Disability
• International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities,
and Handicaps
o ICIDH
o WHO
o 1980
• Impairment:
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o Abnormality in
▪ body structure
▪ appearance
• disability:
o consequence of impairment in terms of performance
• handicap:
o disadvantage individual experienced as a result of
▪ impairment
▪ disability
• 2001:
o WHO adopted a new model to conceptualize:
▪ Function
▪ Disability
▪ Health
o International Classification of Functioning,
Disability, and Health (ICF) replaced ICIIDH
Philosophical Underpinnings of the International Classification
• ICF positive focus on:
o Function
o Health
• Emphasizes integration of health conditions
o Disease
o Injury
o Biological factors
• Also emphasizes integration of other factors
o Personal
o Societal
o Environmental
• Places health on a continuum
• Disability is not a “problem”
o Rather a result of assets or barriers within social or
physical environment
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