Introduction

Title

The publication of the International

Classification of Functioning, Disability

and Health (ICF) in 2001 had, as one of

its main bases, the objective to control

the situation of functioning and

disability at populations, as a statistical

tool. Such control may be able to drive

health policy. However, to be possible,

it is necessary that professionals be

able to use ICF safely and assertively.

The first step to be implemented, as

the literature clearly indicates, is the

insertion of the conceptual model of

functioning and disability of WHO in

professional practice, in political

practice and academic practice. The

multidimensional model does not deny

the existence of a linear model, but the

reverse is true. Currently, the training

of health professionals institutions still

teach the execution of the linear model

for clinical practice and for determining

the political and social guidelines. It is

necessary, in principle, that the

content of ICF be included in

undergraduate and graduate.

But, by now, the professionals must

learn about ICF after graduation. To

facilitate the ICF dissemination, a

online learning tool in Portuguese was

created and it is avaliable in the

webpage http://hoducif.org/hoducif.

ICF Online training for Brazilian professionals

Abstract The online learning tool from CIF Brasil is avaliable since 2013. After two years, professionals from different parts of the country could know the ICF and its applications. Students, health professionals and managers are the target audience for this course. It has four modules containing vídeos, texts, articles, exercises and forums for discussing.

5 June 2015

Helsinki, Finland

Poster Number

THL to insert

First International Symposium: ICF education, 2015

Author: Eduardo Santana de AraujoCIF Brasil, BRAZIL

Title

E-mail: contato@cifbrasil.com.br

Acknowledgements or Notes

Methods Results and Discussion

The course is avaliable in a free

internet model for online couses called

Moodle Plattaform. We created four

sections. Each one contains a video-

class, an article and a guide text. The

complementation is done with queries,

exercises and forums for discussing.

The students stay online during two

weeks, about two hours by day and

the professor share informations,

questions and other forms of learning

stimulations.

The Moodle Platform offers all the

features that are necessaries for

learning and teaching in online

courses. Our greatest care was the

recording of lessons, made by a

professional team for videos making.

Figure 1 – ICF online course page

Figure 2 – Video 1 image

Figure 2 – Video 3 image

The modules presents and discuss the

ICF conceptual model, applications,

structure, qualifiers, and examples of

codes, codification, study cases and

ways to implementation.

Demands for this course come from

national institutes, professional

associations and unions, hospitals or

other health institutions, as well as

universities. We started the method in

2013, after 5 years with the face-to-

face. Until now, more than 5.000

students learned about ICF on CIF

Brasil ways. The online course has

been, at least, a great improvement to

talk about public policies.

A comparison of the “functional health

status” of the populations according to

the presence of diseases and

contextual factors may help us to

determine actions about the

environment so that we can improve

the functionality and prevent disability.

The information system can collect data

from different sources, not only in

healthcare, but also through population

surveys, through school forms or

periodic examinations of workers. But

the professionals must know about that

and how they can help the information

system for big data.

Besides the educational materials from

WHO, other education and exercise

tools were developed to facilitate

integration of knowledge, one of these

is the online courses.

Online courses can provide informations

about ICF using to people in different

places at the same time. So it has been

an important tool in Brazil, wich has a

very large geographical area.

Conclusions