Ong, Cheng Boon.

The State of Social Protection in ASEAN at the Dawn of Integration. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (147 pages)

Cover -- Copyright page -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Towards universal health coverage -- Social protection for children -- Ensuring income security and access -- Preparing for old-age -- Cross-cutting issues influencing the -- Way forward -- Key messages -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Background and methodology -- The ASEAN context -- Methodology -- Defining "social protection" -- Chapter 2: Access to essential health care -- Population coverage -- Service and cost coverage -- Service provision and quality -- Health system financing -- Chapter 3: Social protection for children -- Education -- Nutrition -- Child allowance -- Childcare -- Chapter 4: Social protection for persons -- Work injury benefit -- Sickness benefit -- Maternity benefit -- Unemployment benefit -- Public employment and active labour market policies -- Labour market inclusion of people with disabilities -- Chapter 5: Social protection for older persons -- Population coverage -- Adequacy of benefits -- Long-term care -- Chapter 6: Cross-cutting issues -- Improving coordination -- Adoption of national social protection strategies -- Consolidation of existing schemes into a national system -- Establishment of centralized database of (prospective) beneficiaries -- Central coordination agency for social protection programmes -- ASEAN-level coordination -- Social protection of migrant workers -- Gender disparities -- Disasters and climate change -- Chapter 7: Recommendations to implement the ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening Social Protection -- Universal coverage: innovative examples of extending social protection floors -- Extending coverage: population -- Extending coverage: scope -- Extending coverage: level of protection -- Benefits of risk pooling via social insurance. Better coordination, governance, and administrative capacity -- Role of social partners and other stakeholders -- Monitoring progress in extending social protection -- Affordability and financial sustainability -- Annex I: Recommendations of the Tripartite Seminar on Strengthening Social Protection in ASEAN, Bangkok,17-18 November 2014 -- Annex II: Country fact sheets -- Key indicators: Definitions and data sources -- Bibliography.

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