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Of the 10.23 million people living in Sweden, [1] it is estimated that around 20% are living with a disability. [2] Since the late 20th century, Swedish policy toward disabilities has been centered around the idea of equal opportunity and equal rights for all.
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.
The largest agency under the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (sorted by operating costs) is the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, with annual costs over 15% of GDP and 16,000 employees. [3] This agency is in charge of financial aspects of family policy and social security in the event of illness and disability.
The child allowance in Sweden started from the General Child Allowance in 1948. [7] Parents in Sweden receive cash benefits to ease the burden of raising children who are under 16 years old, barnbidrag. Generally, Swedish parents receive a flat rate child allowance of SEK 1050 per month for one child, which is tax-exempt.
Compulsory sterilisation in Sweden were sterilisations which were carried out in Sweden, without a valid consent of the subject, during the years 1906–2013 on eugenic, medical and social grounds. Between 1972 and 2013, sterilisation was also a condition for gender reassignment surgery .
The Equality Ombudsman (Swedish: Diskrimineringsombudsmannen, lit. 'discrimination ombudsman', DO; formerly Jämställdhetsombudsmannen, 'equality ombudsman', JämO) is a government agency in Sweden tasked with supervising the laws relating to discrimination on the basis of someone's sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation or ...
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Disability policy in Sweden; S. State Institute for Racial Biology This page was last edited on 5 August 2023, at 16:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...