 9:30
- 12:30 Conference Hall
Technical
Commission on Medical Care and Sickness Insurance
Chairperson:
Mr. Khelil Belhaouane
President Director General
National Social Security
Fund
Tunisia
Vice-Chairpersons:
Mr. Ajay Dua
Director General
Employees’ State Insurance
Corporation
India
Mr.
Jean-Paul Phélippeau
Director General
Health Insurance Agency
– Yvelines
France
Technical
Commission on Mutual Benefit Societies
Chairperson:
Mr. Maurice Duranton
Chairman and Managing
Director
National Federation
of Public Service
Mutual Benefit Societies
France
Vice-Chairpersons:
Mr. Alain Coheur
Director for European
and International Affairs
National Union of Socialist
Mutual Benefit Societies
Belgium
Mr.
Wolfgang Schmeinck
Chairman of the Board
National Federation
of Enterprise Sickness Funds
Germany
Agenda:
The role of social security in home-based care
There is increasing demand for home-based care for those
who are dependent because of age, disability or serious
illness. Should social security play a part in home-based
care? If so, what should be the role of social security?
What types of benefits should be provided, and under what
conditions? How should benefits be financed?
Health insurance and managed
care
The aim of managed care is to streamline health care systems
and improve their performance. Managed care affects components
of health care systems: What effect does it have on the
content, organisation and distribution of health care and
sickness insurance? Does managed care allow better control
of health expenditures and improve the quality of the services
provided? Does it lead to a redefinition of the role of
health insurance? Can managed care guarantee access to high
quality care for all?
The role of mutual benefit
societies
How do mutual benefit societies contribute to the development
of social protection? How do they supplement and complement
public measures by providing additional access to health
care and other benefits or services? How do they fill the
gap between public and private social protection? An analysis
of national case studies of these and other issues will
be presented.
9:30
- 12:30 Grand Ballroom
Technical
Commission on Insurance against Employment Accidents and
Occupational Diseases
Chairperson:
Mr. Joachim Breuer
General Administrator
National Federation
of Industrial Employment
Accident Insurance Funds
Germany
Vice-Chairpersons:
Mr. Baldur Schubert
General Coordinator
Prevention Branch
Ministry of Social Insurance
and Social
Assistance
National Institute of
Social Security
Brazil
Mr.
Marco Stancati
Director of Communication
National Employment
Accident Insurance
Institute
Italy
Agenda:
Conditions for implementation or reform of an employment
injury scheme
What are the basic conditions for implementing or reforming
an employment injury social insurance scheme? These refer
to the national economic, social and legal bases for the
implementation and operation of a statutory social insurance
scheme, financing of the scheme and its structural and organizational
framework. What are the constraints to implementing an employment
injury social insurance scheme? How can these be overcome?
Challenges facing employment
injury scheme in developing countries
What are the current challenges facing employment injury
social insurance schemes in developing countries? How can
they be met? Issues include systems of listing occupational
diseases, new occupational diseases, reporting and recording
of work injuries and incentives for prevention. Best practices
will be identified.
14:30
- 17:30 Conference Hall
Technical
Commission on Social Security Research
Chairperson: Mr. Paul
N. Van de Water
Assistant Deputy Commissioner
for Policy
Social Security Administration
United States
Agenda:
Trends in disability benefit recipiency rates
A research project, undertaken under the ISSA research programme
and involving six countries, is analysing recent trends
in dis ability benefit recipiency rates in order to provide
a better understanding of the forces and interactions that
have caused the observed trends. As outflow of persons from
disability benefits is virtually non-existent in all postindustrial
societies, the research project concentrates on getting
a better understanding of the determinants of the inflow
of persons to disability benefits. Selected outcomes of
the project will be presented during this session, with
an emphasis on the impact of social security programmes
on the (often increasing) number of people claiming disability
benefit.
Research activities in developing countries
A session organized at the ISSA General Assembly in Stockholm
in 2001 on “Research: The basis for informed policy decision-making”
showed a strong interest among social security institutions
in developing countries to enhance their research activities.
As a follow-up, the Research Advisory Board has discussed
ways in which the ISSA could play a more active role in
promoting research activities in these countries. This session
will reflect the first phase of this effort and present
research projects, undertaken in developing countries, whose
outcomes allowed significant improvements of social protection
programmes for the institution and country in which they
were undertaken. The conditions required for a research
project to be uccessful, with an emphasis on social security
issues, will be presented and discussed.
14:30
- 17:30 Grand Ballroom
Special
Commission on Prevention
Chairperson:
Mr. Jean-Luc Marié
Director General
National Research and
Safety Institute
France
Vice-Chairperson:
Mr. Erwin Radek
Managing Director
Chemical Industries
Fund
Germany
Agenda:
Respiratory diseases linked to exposure to products such
as asbestos: Are preventive measures sufficient?
The dangers of asbestos, both in the working environment
and in daily life, are well-known. While the use of asbestos
is prohibited in certain countries, in others it continues
in production or use, often for purely economic reasons.
To what extent is asbestos still used? Do industrial interests
run contrary to health requirements? What preventive measures
exist? What is the impact of compensation on the various
branches of social security (employment injuries and occupational
diseases, cash sickness benefits, disability insurance and
health care)?
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