Pôster apresentado no I Simpósio Internacional de Ensino sobre a CIF, em Helsinque (Finlândia), em 2015, sobre o Curso Online da CIF do Grupo CIF Brasil. Acesse www.cifbrasil.com.br #saudefuncional

1. Introduction
Title
The publication of the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability
and Health (ICF) in 2001 had, as one
of its main bases, the objective to
control the situation of functioning and
disability at populations, as a statistical
tool. Such control may be able to drive
health policy. However, to be possible,
it is necessary that professionals be
able to use ICF safely and assertively.
The first step to be implemented, as
the literature clearly indicates, is the
insertion of the conceptual model of
functioning and disability of WHO in
professional practice, in political
practice and academic practice. The
multidimensional model does not deny
the existence of a linear model, but the
reverse is true. Currently, the training
of health professionals institutions still
teach the execution of the linear model
for clinical practice and for determining
the political and social guidelines. It is
necessary, in principle, that the
content of ICF be included in
undergraduate and graduate.
But, by now, the professionals must
learn about ICF after graduation. To
facilitate the ICF dissemination, a
online learning tool in Portuguese was
created and it is avaliable in the
webpage http://hoducif.org/hoducif.
ICF Online training for
Brazilian professionals
Abstract The online learning tool from CIF Brasil is avaliable since 2013. After two years, professionals from different
parts of the country could know the ICF and its applications. Students, health professionals and managers are the target
audience for this course. It has four modules containing vídeos, texts, articles, exercises and forums for discussing.
5 June 2015
Helsinki, Finland
Poster Number
THL to insert
First International Symposium: ICF education, 2015
Author: Eduardo Santana de Araujo
CIF Brasil, BRAZIL
Title
E-mail: contato@cifbrasil.com.br
Acknowledgements or Notes
Methods Results and Discussion
The course is avaliable in a free
internet model for online couses called
Moodle Plattaform. We created four
sections. Each one contains a video-
class, an article and a guide text. The
complementation is done with queries,
exercises and forums for discussing.
The students stay online during two
weeks, about two hours by day and
the professor share informations,
questions and other forms of learning
stimulations.
The Moodle Platform offers all the
features that are necessaries for
learning and teaching in online
courses. Our greatest care was the
recording of lessons, made by a
professional team for videos making.
Figure 1 – ICF online course page
Figure 2 – Video 1 image
Figure 2 – Video 3 image
The modules presents and discuss the
ICF conceptual model, applications,
structure, qualifiers, and examples of
codes, codification, study cases and
ways to implementation.
Demands for this course come from
national institutes, professional
associations and unions, hospitals or
other health institutions, as well as
universities. We started the method in
2013, after 5 years with the face-to-
face. Until now, more than 5.000
students learned about ICF on CIF
Brasil ways. The online course has
been, at least, a great improvement to
talk about public policies.
A comparison of the “functional health
status” of the populations according to
the presence of diseases and contextual
factors may help us to determine
actions about the environment so that
we can improve the functionality and
prevent disability.
The information system can collect data
from different sources, not only in
healthcare, but also through population
surveys, through school forms or
periodic examinations of workers. But
the professionals must know about that
and how they can help the information
system for big data.
Besides the educational materials from
WHO, other education and exercise
tools were developed to facilitate
integration of knowledge, one of these
is the online courses.
Online courses can provide informations
about ICF using to people in different
places at the same time. So it has been
an important tool in Brazil, wich has a
very large geographical area.
Conclusions