22 Aprile 2014
Pronto il Report WHO-FIC Network Annual Meeting 2013
The WHO–FIC Network Annual Meeting served to review the work within the WHO Family of International Classifications in line with the Strategic Work Plan of the Network. The meeting included 42 individual committee and reference group sessions and 12 plenary sessions, as well as a special day dedicated to the review of work plans of WHO-FIC Collaborating Centers. The WHO-FIC Network Committees, namely the Update and Revision Committee (URC), the Education and Implementation Committee (EIC), the Family Development Committee (FDC), and the Informatics and Terminology Committee (ITC), together with the WHOFIC Network Reference Groups, including the Mortality Reference Group (MRG) and the Functioning and Disability Reference Group (FDRG) conducted their annual meetings and updated the Strategic Work Plan for the WHO–FIC Network (SWP) with a particular focus on the review of the results of activities of the past year and formulate the new activities for the year to come. The SWP included specification of the resources, deliverables and evaluation of results. The WHO-FIC Advisory Council met for two half days during the week to review the SWP, and jointly discussed common themes. Dr Lars Berg and Ms Jenny Hargreaves were elected as co-chairs of the WHO-FIC Network to serve for the next two years. In accordance with the election rules, the WHO–FIC Advisory Council and the Small Executive Group (SEG) were reconstituted. The work of the Network and its committees and reference groups will continue, in line with the Strategic Work Plan, and will be monitored by the SEG, the WHO–FIC Advisory Council, and WHO.
The special theme of the WHO-FIC Network Annual Meeting in 2013 was “Universal Health Coverage: Information and Innovation”. Accordingly, main classification activities were reviewed from the UHC perspective, including: defining a UHC evaluation framework, how to support UHC using classifications data, and monitoring of UHC through WHO-FIC data and implementation. Classification standards on cause of death and on interventions are essential for the generation of comparable data for UHC. 124 posters on this and related topics were presented and printed as a booklet, with five garnering special awards as a result of online voting by the meeting participants.
The Annual Meeting discussed the ICD Revision Process in detail in a special plenary session including: the current state of the ICD-11 linearization for use in mortality and morbidity statistics, comparability between ICD-10 and ICD-11, the added value of ICD-11, the transition process in WHO Member States, conducting the reviews for the ICD-11 linearization for mortality and morbidity statistics, conducting Field Trials for testing feasibility and reliability, special bridge-coding between ICD-10 and ICD-11, basic questions and, in particular, on mechanisms for producing ICD-11 in multiple languages as an international standard.
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