jessicarlo.blogspot.com - With the outrage building is the international trans community about our Russian peeps being under attack with the BS driving ban, something unfamiliar to many US based trans folks but central to this oppressive drama has come to our attention in the USA.
The UN's World Health Organization puts out every few years the International Classification of Diseases or ICD Manual.
The ICD-10 was endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in May 1990 and has been used in WHO Member states since 1994.
So why is the ICD important? The ICD is not only the standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes, it is used by physicians, nurses, other providers, researchers, health information managers and coders, health information technology workers, policy-makers, insurers and patient organizations to classify diseases and other health problems recorded on many types of health and vital records, including death certificates and health records.
In addition to enabling the storage and retrieval of diagnostic information for clinical, epidemiological and quality purposes, these records also provide the basis for the compilation of national mortality and morbidity statistics by WHO Member States. Finally, ICD is used for reimbursement and resource allocation decision-making by countries.
Translation: insurance companies use it for coding purposes, too.
And as witnessed in Russia recently, the ICD has been used to attack and pathologize the trans community for decades. As Dr. Kelley Winters, who tracks these issues on her GID Reform blog said on my Facebook page on January 10:
The UN's World Health Organization puts out every few years the International Classification of Diseases or ICD Manual.
The ICD-10 was endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in May 1990 and has been used in WHO Member states since 1994.
So why is the ICD important? The ICD is not only the standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes, it is used by physicians, nurses, other providers, researchers, health information managers and coders, health information technology workers, policy-makers, insurers and patient organizations to classify diseases and other health problems recorded on many types of health and vital records, including death certificates and health records.
In addition to enabling the storage and retrieval of diagnostic information for clinical, epidemiological and quality purposes, these records also provide the basis for the compilation of national mortality and morbidity statistics by WHO Member States. Finally, ICD is used for reimbursement and resource allocation decision-making by countries.
Translation: insurance companies use it for coding purposes, too.
And as witnessed in Russia recently, the ICD has been used to attack and pathologize the trans community for decades. As Dr. Kelley Winters, who tracks these issues on her GID Reform blog said on my Facebook page on January 10:
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