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Kot, Palina
nature.com·2026
Letter to the Editor
https://www.nature.com/articles/nj7618-125a
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View paper →Disability inclusion in health data systems and policy in Korea: Time for action
Jong Eun Park, So Young Kim, Ichiro Kawachi, Hannah Kuper, Jong Hyock Park
Health Affairs Scholar·2026
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 both the potential and the limitations of relying solely on administrative definitions, which often fail to reflect the broader spectrum of disability outlined in international frameworks such as the ICF. To advance equity in health systems, countries must integrate disability into population-based data using standardized, functional definitions. This commentary emphasizes the need for both technical integration and a conceptual shift in how disability is defined, measured, and operationalized in health data systems.
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View paper →How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia | The Scientist
Rebecca Roberts, PhD
the-scientist.com·2026
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View paper →From Hot-Girls to Femcels: Algorithmic Logics and (Popular) Feminist Fatigue on TikTok
Chiara Fehr, Lucia Gloria Vazquez Rodriguez, Jessica Ringrose
Postdigital Science and Education·2026
Abstract
This article explores the interplay between popular feminist cultures and TikTok’s algorithmic neoliberal and patriarchal logics, focusing on how they shape young women’s sexual self-perception and feminist identities in the postdigital era. Drawing on focus group discussions with women aged 18 to 25, we explore how women’s embodied affective experiences become increasingly defined through digital affordances on platforms like TikTok. In their negotiations of algorithmically contextualised femininity, participants discussed fatigue with —and rejections of— popular feminist ‘empowerment’ discourses, neoliberal ‘confidence culture,’ and ‘boss girl’ formations in exchange for nihilistic heteropessimism and/or embracing of aestheticized gendered domesticity. Applying a postdigital theoretical lens to consider online and physical (offline) affective states of our participants, we argue that the algorithmic infrastructure of TikTok pacifies its users, creating apathetic affects around how femininity is experienced. Consequentially, collective grievances are co-opted by capitalist algorithmic logics and reframed as matters to be addressed through self-centred, consumer-oriented, and aestheticized practices of self-work rather than political/collective feminist praxis. Ultimately, TikTok’s visibility economies privilege the circulation of stylised feminine aesthetics and commodified self-presentation over the possibilities of feminism as a mode of political mobilisation for equity and social justice.
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