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The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs is responsible for welfare. This is defined as social security in the case of illness, old age and for the family; social services; health care; promotion of health and children's rights; individual help for persons with disabilities and coordination of the national disability policies.
This Swedish model was characterized by a strong labour movement as well as inclusive publicly funded and often publicly administered welfare institutions. [4] By the early 1980s, the Swedish model began to suffer from international imbalances, declining competitiveness and capital flight.
A social welfare model is a system of social welfare provision and its accompanying value system. ... As a result of the policy, Sweden, Denmark and Norway have the ...
[citation needed] This model of state provided social welfare includes many unemployment benefits for the poor, and amply funded health, housing and social security provision. [2] within essentially corruption free nations subscribing to principles of a measure of openness of information about government activity. [3]
In the 21st century, many of the aspects of the social democratic welfare state continued to function at a high level, due in no small part to the high rate of unionization in Sweden, the independence of unions in the wage-setting and the exemplary competency of the female public sector workforce as well as widespread public support for welfare ...
Folkhemmet (Swedish: [ˈfɔ̂lkˌhɛmːɛt], "the people's home") is a political concept that played an important role in the history of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Swedish welfare state.
The book deals with the consequences of continued low fertility in Sweden. Sweden was threatened by population decline and thus reduced productivity and standard of living. The authors advocated a series of social reforms in order to overcome this problem. A large chapter is devoted to Malthusianism and neo-Malthusianism which they attack and ...
Social security in Sweden is an aspect of the Swedish welfare system and consists of various social insurances handled by the National Agency for Social Insurance (Swedish: Försäkringskassan), and welfare provided based on need by local municipalities.