support children with disabilities and their families and to extend the services of
rehabilitation treatment of disabled children and the financial support to cover the
services.
2. Health Service (Article 24 of CRC)
Basic Health of the Child (CRC/C/KOR/3-4, para. 324 and 331-339)
67. According to the 2009 Comprehensive Study on the Status of Children and
Youth by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the average frequency of medical checkup
in a year among the children aged 19 or below recorded 0.6. The ratio of essential and
optional vaccinations among the children aged 2 or below varied depending upon the
family income level: 52% in the families below the poverty line; 64.3% in those
immediately above the poverty line; and 78.4% in the other families. At present, the
government subsidies are only applied to essential vaccinations, and the cost of
vaccinations for the children in their early childhood varies widely, depending upon the
presence or absence of the local government subsidy (by a margin of up to 420,000
won), the hospitals and the distribution channels of vaccinations.
68. According to the Youth Health data released by the Statistics Korea in 2010,
the obesity ratio of the elementary and secondary school students was rated at 13.2%.
The Comprehensive Study on the Status of Children and Youth reveals that 45.1% of the
children aged 12~18 did little exercise all through the week while the largest percentage
of the children aged 3~11 did some exercise for 1~3 hours a week. By age group and
income level, the incidence of child obesity was the highest in the poor class among the
children aged 11 or below, and in the class immediately above the poverty line among
the children aged 12~18. The Government started the health management service for
obese and weak children, as part of its investment in the local community services
(voucher projects), in 2011 but the service is not available to all the children in need.
The service is provided for a limited time of one year only to the children who have
succeeded in making a timely application for the service.
69. The Government needs to increase the financial support for
vaccinations to narrow the gap in vaccination ratios among the families of different
income levels, with a view to promoting the basic health of children. Furthermore,
the Government needs to resolve the difference in the vaccination cost caused by
the local community subsidies, hospitals or distribution channels, by promoting
equitability among different local communities and supervising and controlling the
hospitals and distribution channels. In an effort to prevent child obesity, the
Government needs to ensure that the child health management service is available
in a universal and consistent way, not to a selected group or for a limited period of
time.
Mental Health of the Child (CRC/C/KOR/3-4, para. 341~342)
70. According to the analysis of the health insurance payments during
2003~2009 by the Health Insurance Policy Research Institute under the National Health
Insurance Corporation, the incidence of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
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