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Le Processus De Production Des Handicaps: Vers Un Cadre Conceptuel Renouvele

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
September 1990

Abstract

Since the mid-1970s the development of a specific conceptual framework for the consequences of disease and trauma has been occurring at the international level. A growing awareness among health professionals of the chronic physical, intellectual, and emotional problems which are reducing the abilities and social autonomy of a large percentage of the population have led the World Health Organization (WHO) to work on this matter. In this paper, the author explains the conceptual evolution of the field of disabilities. He defines the challenges and potential uses of an international classification of consequences of disease and trauma. This article proposes an interactive conceptual framework for the identification of handicaps and directions for the revision of the WHO's International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH). It is an invitation for the Canadian mental-health field to express points of view on the present process of the harmonization of terminology and concepts on the Canadian and international scenes. The English version of the proposal to revise the third level of the ICIDH (handicaps) can be obtained from the Canadian Society for the ICIDH, 1399, rue Thibodeau, Lac St-Charles, Québec GOA 2H0, Canada.

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Depuis le milieu des années 1970, un effort particulier d'explication des conséquences des maladies et traumatismes s'est amorcé sur le plan international. L'importance grandissante pour les systémes de santé des problémes chroniques sur les plans physique, intellectuel, et psychique et les limites que ces problèmes imposent sur les capacités et l'autonomie sociale d'un pourcenlage considérable de la population ont amené l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) à se préoccuper spécifiquement de cette question. Dans cet article, l'auteur retrace l'évoution conceptuelle de la problématique du handicap et définit les enjeux et les perspectives d'application d'une classification internationale des conséquences des maladies et traumatismes. Cet article propose un modèle conceptuel interactif de production des handicaps ainsi que des orientations pour la révision de la Classification internationale des déficiences, incapacités, et handicaps (CIDIH) de l'OMS. Il invite les milieux canadiens de santé mentale à faire connaître leurs points de vue et expertises dans la démarche actuelle d'harmonisation terminologique et conceptuelle sur le plan canadien et international.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 9Number 2September 1990
Pages: 151 - 162

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Version of record online: 29 Avril 2009

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Patrick Fougeyrollas
Centre François-Charon

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