Based on the principles of universality and equality and the guideline of integrality, the Brazilian Public Healthcare System, called Unified Health System (SUS), was constituted as a regionalized and hierarchical services network. There is the recognizing of interdependence between...

The objective of this text is to rescue the perspective of social welfare macro sectorial analysis. The emergence of social security and the interrelation among social security, social assistance and health policies are analyzed, at first, from a historical and conceptual perspective and...

This article provides an analysis of the propriety and opportunity of a macrosectoral analysis of Brazilian social security, in order to favor the understanding of the performance and challenges that cross each of its sectoral policies and contribute to the reflection on the common logic that...

The last 20 years have been marked by reforms in social protection systems in a wide range of countries. In general, one has observed the growth of non-contributory income security programs and their association to labor market inclusion programs. This course is also seen in Canada, whose...

Functional dependency in elderly people has been studied in many countries where demographic changes have led to the increase in the over 60 age group. In Brazil, it has aroused interest of public agents and society due to the appearance of specific demands related to personal, domestic and...

Improvement in life expectancy and population ageing are worldwide phenomena that distinguish the demographic dynamics of nowadays societies. Therefore functional dependency and the quality of life of the frail elderly have grown into major issues in public agenda. This text aims to present and...

This paper analyzes the recent trajectory of social security in Brazil from the evolution of the contributive and no contributive income guarantee programs. The Brazilian social protection has gone through important changes in recent years, on the one hand, as an answer to the configuration...