Colombia, Spain, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador: Social Security for the olderly

Authors

  • Oscar José Dueñas Ruiz Universidad del Rosario

Abstract

There are (we study) three chapters about elder adult rights: Health, Pensions and Social Services. We analyze them from a historical and juridical point, with a simple and understandings language. This article is a corollary of a finished investigation by Rosario University and Iberomaericana Social Security Organization (OISS). We studied the development of three rights (healthy, pensions and social services) in Colombia taking its legality, jurisprudence and practice. In order to improve our knowledge about another Iberian-american countries, we also studied the development of the those three rights in Spain, Ecuador, Cuba, Costa Rica and Uruguay (taking the most important points). Some chapters had been studied by a holistic and dialect method. But, above all, every Social Security System must account in the first place the man, the human aspect

Author Biography

Oscar José Dueñas Ruiz, Universidad del Rosario

Abogado de la Universidad del Rosario, Magister en seguridad y social y en servicios sociales (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares y OISS), profesor universitario
y en post-grado en varias universidades; conferencista nacional e internacional; autor de varios libros y artículos; profesor de pregrado e investigador de la Universidad del Rosario; miembro de la Academia Colombiana de Jurisprudencia y autor de varios libros.

Published

2011-11-25

Issue

Section

Research Articles