Integrated Disability Management

This article sets out to increase awareness regarding the wide anduniversal significance of disability, as well as the important benefits of an IntegratedDisability Management (IDM) approach. The scientific basis for IDM is explored in thefirst place through an analysis of its relationship to the International Classificationof Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). The conceptual paradigm of the ICF sharesan ideological position with the IDM approach in that they are both underpinned bydynamic and multidimensional constructions of disability, which imply equally holisticand interdisciplinary responses. The IDM approach can be applied across a diversity ofhuman situations to provide solutions that reflect the multifaceted and widespreadnature of disability. The IDM approach is intended as a strategy capable of handling:inclusion of people with disabilities, active aging of human resources, health andsafety in the workplace, prevention of disabilities and various diseases,return-to-work, absenteeism, and presenteeism