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Alteration in the nature of morbidity experience poses challenging problems for quantifying the burden of that morbidity. In response to reduction in the relative contribution of acute and life-threatening illnesses, as chronic disorders became more dominant, the World Health Organization (WHO) commissioned construction of a scheme for classifying information relevant to the consequences of disease; this ultimately led to publication of the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH; WHO 1980) for trial purposes.
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Wood, P.H.N. (1990). The International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps of the World Health Organization. In: Leidl, R., Potthoff, P., Schwefel, D. (eds) European Approaches to Patient Classification Systems. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75593-4_7
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