National Academies Health and Medicine
WORKSHOP
Aging, Functioning, and Rehabilitation
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February 16, 2024 | 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. CET (2:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET)
February 17, 2024 | 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. CET (2:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. ET) |
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| The National Academies will host a hybrid public workshop at the University of Lucerne in Lucerne, Switzerland. The event will facilitate a discussion focused on the World Health Organization’s concept of functioning and its role in rethinking health, with a focus on healthy aging and the future of rehabilitation as a health strategy.
Invited presentations and panel discussions will cover topics including:
- The World Health Organization’s concept of functioning in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
- Moving beyond traditional health outcome measures and operationalizing functioning as a measure of health
- Standardizing and routinely collecting functioning data in health information systems
- Ways to integrate functioning into public health strategies for healthy aging and healthy longevity
- Disability from the perspective of functioning: a universal human experience as well as a discrete social group seeking equity
- Epidemiology of functioning: the consequences of using functioning as the third health indicator augmenting mortality and morbidity
- How demographic and epidemiological projections are shaping the future of public health in the context of functioning
- Conceptualizing and operationalizing rehabilitation as the health strategy that aims to optimize functioning, which could serve as the basis for scaling rehabilitation in the 21st century
- Functioning and person-centered care: the lived experience of health
- Functioning and value-based health care
For more information on this study and virtual public workshop, visit the event webpage. |
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