E-Participation in Developing Countries

This chapter on e-participation in developing countries uses Cameroon as a case study to demonstrate the realities of practicing Web 2.0 and social media tools to drive collaborative initiatives between government agencies and citizens in developing countries. The case study was guided by the incentives for e-participation using social media technologies, the tools used by a government to drive such initiatives, the level of participation from citizens, and the challenges and risks faced in implementing these technologies. A study of Cameroon's National Social Insurance Fund (NSIF) confirmed the main incentives of e-participation initiatives in developing countries and the major challenges they face in implementing them.

SUPPLEMENTARY PARENTAL BENEFIT – THE MUM 4 + PROGRAMME – EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY

In this article the regulations of the act on parental supplementary benefit of January 30, 2019 are thoroughly analysed. Supplementary parental benefit is granted to a person who gave birth to and raised or only raised at least four children and did not acquire the right to a pension or a pension paid to this person by the pension authority is smaller than the lowest pension. One is entitled to the benefit mentioned herein only in the case of not having means of subsistence because of not pursuing or discontinuing employment as a result of raising minimum four children. Supplementary parental benefit is in no way related to making social security contributions, it is a benefit financed by the state budget, which in a supplementary or substitutional way is linked to old age. In the legal sense, it is not a pension, but a special non-contributory monetary benefit of discretionary nature, which is granted only on request of the person of interest based on the administrative decision of the president of the Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) or the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS).

The results of the state population policy in the field of rehabilitation, medical and social expertise, social insurance, labor and employment of work-injured people

Aim. To study the indicators of industrial injuries and occupational morbidity in the Russian Federation and the effectiveness of measures for the professional rehabilitation of injured workers in the context of the implementation of state programs aimed at enhancing the labor force and employment. Methods. The analysis of statistical indicators on the number of workers, insured and injured at work from 2007 to 2018 and the results of measures for victim rehabilitation between 2014 and 2019, using data from Rosstat, reporting form No. 7 social security and open data of the social insurance fund. Descriptive statistics were used in the analysis. Results. The level of employment of disabled people planned by the Government of the Russian Federation by 2020 at the level of 40% in relation to people who are injured at work has not been achieved. At the same time, about 80% of the injured person had mild and moderate dysfunctions, about 50% were of working age. Against this background, employment at the level of 0.2 to 6.6% per year indicates the insufficient effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation. In most EU countries, where the return to work rate for work-injured people exceeds 90%, the employer and the insurer jointly participate in the professional rehabilitation of the injured, applying and financing all the necessary organizational and rehabilitation measures. In the Russian Federation, measures for occupational adaptation, maintenance of employment and the creation of special jobs are not subject to reimbursement from insurance funds, only educational events are financed. An employer who has caused harm to the health of work-injured is not economically interested in restoring his professional status. The authors encouraged to amend the regulations of the Russian Federation to ensure financing of the entire range of measures for vocational rehabilitation and the economic interest of employers in restoring the occupational status of work-injured people. Conclusion. Despite the favorable decreasing trend of industrial injuries and occupational morbidity at the enterprises of the Russian Federation over the past 12 years, the number of industrial injuries with permanent disability remains high, and the effectiveness of their vocational rehabilitation is low, which requires an expansion of the list of measures for vocational rehabilitation financed from the social insurance fund and ensuring the economic interest of employers in restoring the professional status of work-injured people.

Official clarifications of labor protection specialists

Explanations of labor protection specialists on labor relations, as well as those related to the occurrence of occupational risks are presented. The specialists of the Fund tell how the expenses for the prevention of injuries and occupational diseases can be compensated for, what preventive measures can be spent on the funds of the Social Insurance Fund (hereinafter referred to as the FSS RF, the Fund).

XXX lat rehabilitacji leczniczej realizowanej przez Kasę Rolniczego Ubezpieczenia Społecznego XXX years of medical rehabilitation by the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund

Na przestrzeni ostatnich 30 lat działalność rehabilitacyjna w Kasie Rolniczego Ubezpieczenia Rolniczego (KRUS) ewoluowała. Pierwszym sukcesem było powstanie Centrum Rehabilitacji Rolników w Iwoniczu-Zdroju. W tymże Centrum przyjęto pacjentów już w drugim roku istnienia Kasy, a w ciągu następnych czterech lat zakończono modernizację i adaptację kolejnych sześciu obiektów leczniczych. W pierwszych latach działalności Kasy stworzono systemowy charakter kierowania rolników na turnusy rehabilitacyjne. Od wielu lat Kasa przyczynia się do podnoszenia jakości usług w Centrach, zapewnia rolnikom wysokie standardy rehabilitacji oparte na uznanych metodach leczniczych i osiągnięciach współczesnej medycyny. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest omówienie kształtowania się rehabilitacji leczniczej oraz jej rozwój instytucjonalny od momentu powstania Kasy Rolniczego Ubezpieczenia Społecznego.

Organization of work of bodies and institutions of social protection of the population

The textbook deals with the main issues of the course "Organization of the work of social protection bodies and institutions in the Russian Federation": general characteristics of the social protection system and the organization of the work of social protection bodies and institutions in the Russian Federation; legal status and organization of the work of federal executive authorities, other state bodies in the field of social protection of the population, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, etc. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of secondary vocational education of the latest generation. For students studying in the specialty 40.02.01 "Law and organization of social security", as well as for employees of bodies and organizations of social protection of the population, other state and municipal bodies and institutions that perform functions for the social protection of certain categories of citizens.

Actual Problems of Compensation for Health Damage Caused During the Performance of Labor Duties

The article discusses the controversial issues of compensation for physical harm caused to an employee. The article analyzes the possibility of satisfying the claim for compensation of such expenses, presented directly to the harmer, provided that the insurance coverage is obtained at the expense of the Social Insurance Fund. The conclusion is made about the possibility of such a claim. At the same time, the conditions for its satisfaction are determined, including the victim»s need for such expenses, taking into account the right to choose a doctor and a medical organization, in the absence of signs of abuse of the right.

Digitalization and protection of citizens' rights compulsory social insurance

The subject of this article was the issues related to the protection of the rights of citizens in the field of compulsory social insurance in the conditions of digitalization. It is shown that in order to ensure effective and safe conditions for the use of digital technologies, it is necessary to include universal basic approaches in the legal regulation. Specific examples of how the tasks of digitalization of social services in the field of social security are currently actively implemented by the social insurance Fund of the Russian Federation are given. English version of the article is available at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/digitalization-and-protection-of-citizens-rights-in-compulsory-social-insurance/71242.html

Epidemiological, clinical, and expert problems of occupational infectious diseases of workers during medical care in the COVID-19 pandemic

Preserving the working population's health is a priority direction of state policy in labor relations, labor protection, and the provision of healthy and safe working conditions by the employer and the state, prevention of occupational diseases. The state's economic growth in a competitive era is mainly due to the level of health and working capacity of the population. This issue has acquired relevance in the COVID-19 pandemic for medical workers. Among these workers, the incidence of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19 is associated with professional duties and entails a high risk of morbidity and mortality. The paper presents the results of a special assessment of working conditions. The author studied the data on the presence of occupational diseases among medical workers in 2019 (according to the data of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation). On the example of 15 medical organizations of the Russian Federation, an analysis of the working environment factors was carried out. The distribution of occupational diseases was analyzed depending on the harmful factors of the working environment in 2019. Information is provided on the implementation in 2020 by the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 06.05.2020 No. 313 "On providing additional insurance guarantees to certain categories of medical workers" (as of 07.12.2020). Clinic of the Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Health and the centers of occupational pathology of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation provided preliminary information on the examinations of professional suitability, studies of the connection of the disease with the profession (including among medical workers) in the Russian Federation in 2020.