Handicap

ingl.: disabilità, incapacità comportamentale

Termine lasciato in inglese per le difficoltà di traduzione, può essere considerato equivalente a “svantaggio”: indica infatti qualsiasi condizione di svantaggio psicosociale per incapacità comportamentale. Ogni malattia funzionale richiede identificazione e quantificazioni di un _ specifico per quella malattia, che è in rapporto con le condizioni generali del soggetto (vedi anche emorroidi patologiche) e il referto specialistico, se redatto con il ‘metodo’ IPGH, si conclude con la descrizione dei sintomi indicando (acronimo: H) la severità della disabilità. La quantificazione in realtà non è univoca: se viene assimilata alla qualità di vita, allora si può calcolare anche in base a sistemi di valutazione della qualità di vita, o mediante la scala Functional Indipendence Measure (acronimo:FIM).

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