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The International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH) is gaining wide acceptance inside and outside the field of rehabilitation medicine. Impairment and disability are concepts which are very often used interchangeably or defined differently. The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined impairment and disability in the ICIDH. In this article an analysis is made of these definitions and the characteristics that are given for the definitions. Based on this analysis, modifications for the definitions and characteristics of impairment and disability are suggested.
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J. W. Brandsma
It is with great sadness that we have to inform the readership of the Journal that shortly after completing the final editorial work on this Special Issue, Professor Kalman Jacob Mann was seriously injured in a car accident and subsequently died.
Professor Mann was responsible for establishing the two Hadassah Hospitals and Community Health Centres in Jerusalem and for the past 20 years headed the Presidium of Yad Sarah, Israel's largest community based, volunteer operated organization which provides a spectrum of free or nominal cost home care services nation-wide.
We offer our condolences to his family and friends, and trust that this Special Issue stands as a testament to his work in the field.