The set comprises questions on six core functional domains: seeing, hearing, walking, cognition, self-care and communication.

There is consensus around broad domains of “functioning” — physical (mobility, dexterity, self-care, cognition), mental (memory and concentration), sensory (seeing, hearing), other important domains (pain/discomfort, vitality/fatigue), psychological functioning (affect/anxiety, interpersonal relationships) and social functioning.

In conditions of social unrest and civil strife, United Nations country teams are frequently asked to assist with measures in the social and economic domains (e.g., functioning and governance of public institutions, respect for human rights, social and economic integration of vulnerable groups) that address the root causes of crises.

The International Classification of Functioning (ICF) is the World Health Organisation's (WHO) system of classification of health and health-related domains which incorporated medical, functional, social and environmental factors in its scope of analysis.

For reasons of simplicity, brevity and comparability, the choice was made to identify limitations in domains of basic activity functioning that are found universally, are most closely associated with social exclusion and occur most frequently.

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