Welcome at the bilingual website of the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Family of International Classifications (FIC) in the Netherlands.

The Centre was instituted by WHO in 1989, and came under the RIVM Department of Public Health Forecasting in 1998.

The Centre’s terms of reference relate on the one hand to the implementation and use of the FIC and related classifications in the Netherlands and on the other hand to their international update and revision, resulting from their use; see also the Centre's flyer. An overview in Dutch on utility, application and necessity of international classifications in the Netherlands has been reported in 2010 to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, see also the English abstract.

This website is partly bilingual, partly monolingual, either in English or in Dutch, depending on intended user groups and availability of information in either one or both languages. The website is complementary to the classifications website of WHO: www.who.int/classifications/en.

ICF, ICD-10, ICPC-2 and CMSV are available online in Dutch in a Classification Browser

The Centre issues an international newsletter: Newsletter on the WHO-FIC and fulfills a co-ordinative and facilitating role for international classifications.

The team of the Centre consists of

• Dr. Marijke W. de Kleijn-de Vrankrijker, head, e-mail: marijke.de.kleijn@rivm.nl
• Drs. Huib Ten Napel, head, e-mail: huib.ten.napel@rivm.nl
• Dr. Willem M. Hirs, RIVM, senior advisor, e-mail: willem.hirs@rivm.nl
• Dr. Coen H. van Gool, RIVM, e-mail: coen.van.gool@rivm.nl
• Drs. Theo van Mens, senior advisor, e-mail: theovanmens@gmail.com
• Drs. Lany Slobbe, RIVM, e-mail: lany.slobbe@rivm.nl

Address:

WHO-FIC Collaborating Centre
Department for Public Health Forecasting (cVTV)
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).
PO Box 1
3720 BA Bilthoven
the Netherlands

tel.: #31(0)30 274 3215 (secretariate), (0)30 274 4276,
fax: #31(0)30 274 4450

update October 2011