Reassembling Social Security
A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 January 2008
- ISBN 9780199233779
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 255x179x32 mm
- Weight 992 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.
MoreLong description:
The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. From the reforms that took place in Chile in 1981, most pension and health care systems in the region have seen reform, and been fully or partially privatized. Many other countries considering reform of their own systems have been influenced by the policies implemented in Latin America.
Yet despite the importance and influence of these reforms, until now there has not been an integrated and comprehensive analysis of the changes and their effects. This book is the result of four years of painstaking work, data collection, field research and international collaboration, and so fills the vacuum in the literature with a systematic comparison of pension and healthcare reforms in the 20 Latin American countries.
It identifies reform models, and elaborates taxonomies to facilitate their understanding and comparison. Some key features of the reforms to emerge are: labour force and population coverage, equity and solidarity, sufficiency and quality of benefits, state regulation, competition and degree of privatization, efficiency and administrative costs, social participation in management, financing sources and long-term sustainability. Effects of the reforms on social security principles are measured based on recent standardized statistics and other information. Goals or assumptions of the reforms are contrasted with actual outcomes, and the pros and cons of private versus private provision assessed. Detailed policy recommendations are offered to correct current problems and improve pension and healthcare systems.
This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems, and as such will be of importance to academics and researchers interested in social security and welfare policy, pensions, health care, and public policy; Social security, pension, and health care policy-makers; And social security, pension, and health care consultants and practitioners.
Published in association with PAHO
an invaluable source of information on specific programs, country by country, and on the positions and roles of various international organizations.
Table of Contents:
Preamble: Reassembling Social Security in Latin America
Part I: The State of Pension and Health Care in the Region Before the Reforms
Social Security Principles, their Enforcement in Latin America, and Modifications by the Reforms
Part II: Pension Reforms and Their Effects
Pension Reforms: Taxonomy, Objectives, and Actors
Effects on Coverage, Equal Treatment, Solidarity, and Comprehensiveness/Sufficiency
Effects on Unity, State Responsibility, Efficiency, and Social Participation
Effects on Financial Sustainability and New Reform Goals
Part III: Health Care Reforms and their Effects
Healthcare Reforms: Taxonomy, Objectives, Actors
Effects on Universal Coverage
Effects on Equal Treatment, Solidarity, and Comprehensiveness/Sufficiency
Effects on Unity, State Responsibility, Efficiency, and Social Participation
Effects on Financial Sustainability and Efficacy
Part IV: Towards a Better Social Security in the Future
Policies on Pensions and Healthcare
