Social Security - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Gerontology in the developing Brazil: achievements and challenges in public policies.

30 May 2009 AIM: In the last three decades, the segment of population aged 60 years and older has more than doubled in Brazil. People aged 80 years and older are expected to be the fastest-growing segment in the near future. This aim of this study was to ... Read more...

[Workplace-related anxiety, workplace phobia and disorders of participation]

30 May 2009 Work is an important domain of life. It is therefore clear that problems at the workplace and mental disorders will have negative interactions. Job-related anxieties are of special importance as any workplace causes or intensifies anxiety by its ... Read more...

Social protection in Brazil: what has changed in social assistance after the 1988 Constitution.

29 Apr 2009 This paper discusses the changes in the social assistance component of social protection in the two decades that followed the 1988 Constitution. It discusses the transformations of social protection and social assistance in the past decades and the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Social Security - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Gerontology in the developing Brazil: achievements and challenges in public policies. 30 May 2009
• Let them go bankrupt, soon. Solving Social Security and Medicare. 30 May 2009
• [Workplace-related anxiety, workplace phobia and disorders of participation] 30 May 2009
• Social protection in Brazil: what has changed in social assistance after the 1988 Constitution. 29 Apr 2009
• Dilemmas of the institutionalization of social policies in twenty years of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. 29 Apr 2009
• Social security and mental illness: reducing disability with supported employment. 29 Apr 2009
• Transforming federal policy. 29 Apr 2009
• ["Rehabilitation law as practiced by the social benefit carriers" - report of the meeting of Sozialrechtsverbund Norddeutschland Nov. 6 and 7, 2008 in Neubrandenburg] 15 Apr 2009
• Health insurance and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008: implications for public health policy and practice. 27 Feb 2009
• [Effectiveness, benefit and necessity: making an attempt at a scientific definition] 30 Dec 2008
• Medicaid program; disproportionate share hospital payments. Final rule. 17 Dec 2008
• [Increasing use of social benefits by young people with chronic illness or disability in the Netherlands] 13 Dec 2008
• Medicaid program; premiums and cost sharing. Final rule. 23 Nov 2008
• Representative payment under titles II, VIII and XVI of the Social Security Act. Final rule. 8 Nov 2008
• Constraints and obstacles to social health protection in the Maghreb: the cases of Algeria and Morocco. 30 Oct 2008
• Supreme Court decision on conflict of interest. 30 Oct 2008
• Welfare writes. Try to understand why an application for the middle rate of disability living allowance was refused. 30 Oct 2008
• Medicaid program; self-directed personal assistance services program State Plan option (cash and counseling). Final rule. Oct 2008
• Medico-legal reasoning in disability assessment: a focus group and validation study. 23 Sep 2008
• [Implants and hospital pricing] 18 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Social Security'

Definition: Government sponsored social insurance programs.

Descriptor UI: D012943

Alternative terms: Social Security; Security, Social; Social Insurance; Insurance, Social; Aid to the Totally Disabled; Aid to the Blind;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.219.521.346.506.849; N03.219.521.576.823;

Online Note: use SOCIAL SECURITY to search AID TO THE BLIND & AID TO THE TOTALLY DISABLED 1975-76; use PUBLIC ASSISTANCE 1968-74

History Note: AID TO THE BLIND & AID TO THE TOTALLY DISABLED were see under PUBLIC ASSISTANCE 1968-77

Technical Notes: specify country, including U.S.