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PURPOSE: To report on the preliminary results of an Italian project on the
implementation of an ICF-based protocol for providing public services and
benefits for persons with disabilities. METHODS: The UN Convention on the Rights
of persons with disabilities (UNC) was mapped to the ICF, and core elements were
implemented in an ICF-based evaluation protocol. A person-environment interaction
classification (PEIC) tree was also developed for defining evaluation outputs.
RESULTS: The PEIC and the ICF-based protocol are the guideline and the data
interpretation source, respectively, for providing public services and benefits.
They enable to assign persons to different services, from surveillance and
monitoring to facilitator provision or sustain over time, to barrier removal or
to the reorganisation of environmental factors provision. A detailed description
of the target intervention is made available through the implementation of a
protocol, which points out the effect of personal support and other environmental
factors. CONCLUSIONS: The detailed description of functioning and disability
provided by our methodology can help policy makers and administrators in decision
making, on the basis of a description of real needs, and in targeting
person-tailored interventions.

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