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Mission
The mission of the WHO Collaborating Center for the Family of International Classifications for North America is to promote the development and use of the WHO Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC), including the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Health Problems (ICD), the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), and other derived and related classifications and to contribute to their implementation and improvement.
Terms of Reference for WHO-FIC North American Collaborating Center (NACC)
Within the overall scope of WHO's plan of work on the Family of International Classifications (2004-2008):
To
promote the development and use of the WHO Family of International
Classifications (WHO-FIC), including the International Statistical
Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), the
International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICFDH),
and other derived and related classifications and to contribute to their
implementation and improvement in the light of practical experience by
multiple parties as a common language.
To
contribute to the development of methodologies for the use of the WHO-FIC
to facilitate the measurement of health states, interventions and outcomes
on a sufficiently consistent and reliable basis to permit comparisons
within countries over time and within and between countries at the same
point in time. This includes the creation of comparable lists,
correspondence tables, and comparability studies.
To
support the work of the various committees and work groups established to
assist WHO in the development, testing, implementation, use, improvement,
updating, and revision of members of the WHO-FIC
including:
1. Executive Committee of WHO-FIC
2. Committee of Heads of WHO-FIC Centres
3. Subcommittees such as Implementation, Training and Credentialling, Updating, ElectronicTools, etc.
To
study aspects related to the structure, interpretation, and application of
members of the WHO-FIC, including those concerning taxonomy, linguistics,
terminology, and nomenclature.
To
network with current and potential users of the WHO-FIC and act as a
reference centre (e.g., clearinghouse for good practice guidelines and the
resolution of problems) for information about the WHO-FIC and other
health-related classifications including:
the availability, suitability, and applicability of the
classifications for
different purposes
coding practices
availability of tools for implementation
data analysis and interpretation
To
prepare teaching materials and to organize and conduct training courses on
the implementation and use of the WHO-FIC. To contribute to the
development of common international training tools and Internet-based
applications by preparing translations and adaptations of the tools.
To
assist WHO Headquarters and the Regional Offices in the preparation of
members of the WHO-FIC and other relevant materials in the English
language and to act as a reference centre for that language on all matters
related to the WHO-FIC
To
provide support to existing and potential users of the WHO-FIC and of the
data thus derived in North America and other English-speaking countries.
To
work on at least one related and/or derived member of the WHO-FIC
Specialty-based adaptations
Primary Care adaptations
Interventions/procedures
Injury Classification
(ICECI)
Service
To
participate in the quality assurance procedures of the WHO-FIC
classifications regarding norms for use, training and data collection, and
application rules.
To
present periodic reports of the Center's activities to the annual meetings
of Heads of WHO Collaborating Centres for the WHO Family of International
Classifications (WHO-FIC).
This page last reviewed
January 11, 2007
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