Disability inclusion in health data systems and policy in Korea: time for action.

ABSTRACT: Persons with disabilities experience significant health inequities globally, driven in part by the lack of disability-disaggregated data in national health surveillance systems. In Korea, despite having a well-established administrative infrastructure-most notably the Korean National Disability Registration System-disability-inclusive health data remain limited. The National Health Information Database, which links administrative and health insurance data, offers a rare example of integrated data enabling individual-level analysis by disability status, type, and severity. However, the absence of a legal mandate and limited policy recognition of disability inclusion have hindered the widespread use of disability identifiers across key national health datasets. Korea's experience illustrates

SUBMITTER: Park JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12898922 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature