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World Health Day 2012: The challenge of healthy ageing
ISSA, 05.04.2012 | Feature | Social security and health
The UN marks World Health Day on 7 April, and this year's theme is Ageing and health: Good health adds life to years.
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In Africa, using new technologies to improve the delivery of social security
ISSA, 15.03.2012 | Feature | Administration & management
Accurately-targeted and objective-driven use of information and communication technology (ICT) is increasingly essential to the capability of social security institutions to deliver better client services and improve organizational efficiency. The ISSA Good Practice Award for Africa 2011 provides...
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Modernizing the social security system in Turkey
ISSA, 15.03.2012 | Feature | Managing reforms
Demographic changes, financing challenges, unequal access to social security by different categories of the population as well as institutional inefficiencies all combined to convince policy-makers of the need for an extensive and radical reform of the Turkish social security system, which has be...
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Women's Day highlights the gender gap in social security
ISSA, 07.03.2012 | Feature | About social security
International Women's Day on 8 March is an opportunity to ask how women’s access to social security is evolving – and what are some of the major challenges that remain?
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Social security, the MDGs and human rights: A rights-based approach to social protection
ISSA, 17.02.2012 | Feature | About social security
Social protection has become a centrepiece for development, because it is an indispensable ingredient for empowering people to participate in society in all its dimensions – social, political, economic and cultural. It is also increasingly considered as an essential tool for states to fulfill the...
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