Personal and environmental factors interacting with disability: application of the ICF-Checklist on a group of Guatemala street urchins.

This survey intends to study the health conditions and the social integration of the street urchins in Guatemala. The ICF-Checklist was adopted to classify both health and health related conditions, focusing on how body functioning and socio-cultural aspects interact. 18 subjects (10 male, 8 female) between 16 to 28 years old were interviewed. They were grouped for similar habit and places frequented. The results confirm that the ICF-Checklist is a tool capable classifying multifactorial dimensions of disability in operational, universal, and sharable codes, although applicable and usable only by experts of the instrument and professionals of the field surveyed.