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This introduction presents a brief review of projects carried out in Italy
applying ICF model. ICF allows to capture and appropriately describe human
functioning and disability in terms of body functions and body structures, life
activities, participation in society, modulating contextual factors. ICF
framework allows to have a complex profile of persons with different medical
conditions. Several clinical studies have been performed using ICF and ICF-CY, in
Italy from the publication of ICF in 2001 and ICF-CY in 2007. Most of them
highlight the utility and feasibility of using ICF to describe the functional
profiles of patients with different health conditions. The clinical applications
of ICF clearly show that ICF-based functional profiles are useful in designing
better interventions - directed not only to patients' health condition and
symptoms but also to the most important activities of their daily living and
environmental factors that may act as barriers or facilitators to the patients'
recovery, well-being and participation in society.

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