Note: [1] Derek Duckworth was awarded a PhD in Education by Lancaster University in 1972 after which he undertook statistical research on examinations at the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales. Since 1977 he has been a Research Fellow within the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Kent at Canterbury, working on the classification, measurement and assessment of disablement.
Note: [2] Rose Knight is a statistician with experience in social, economic and health care research. She has worked in the Government Statistical Service and has held research appointments at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She joined the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Kent in 1972.
Note: [3] M.D. Warren qualified from Guy's Hospital, London, in 1946. After postgraduate study and subsequent appointments in public health he became Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine in the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and later Reader in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1971 he was appointed Professor of Social Medicine and Director of the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Abstract: The ICIDH presents a scheme for recording detailed data relating to the consequences of disease in patients treated by the health-care system. At first sight, it seems to have little relevance to recording, much less collecting, data obtained during a household survey of disablement. However, the scheme is based on definitions which represent a logical development from those successfully used in disablement surveys conducted in Canterbury. The experience gained in these surveys suggests that the conceptualization of disablement in future surveys could, with advantage to clarity and comparability, be based on the definitions presented in the ICIDH. Further, the ICIDH indicates the range of disablement components and indicators from which a selection might be made in any particular survey. Also, it sometimes presupposes methods of collecting the data relating to these components and indicators which might be adapted to survey use.
