SOCIAL ASSISTANCE – PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO ENSURING HEALTH SECURITY IN THE POST PANDEMIC PERIOD
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE – PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO ENSURING HEALTH SECURITY IN THE POST PANDEMIC PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: In the field of human security, public attention is often captured by those violent acts, which immediately cause suffering and loss of human lives, such as trafficking inhuman beings, terrorism or even the pandemic. However, social life also has other aspects that, if the suffering and human loss and/or financial costs would be quantified, could overcome or, at least, reach the same heights as the loss from the threats mentioned above. The incidence of modern society as a source of social risk with impact on personal safety is major. As a result, the number of disadvantaged and vulnerable people is continuously growing, taking into account the SARS COV-2 pandemic. The field of social assistance is closely connected to human security. Thus, approaching the two dimensions in tandem, in terms of setting up strategies and national policies related to social protection, will ensure a reduction in the number of people at risk from vulnerable categories. In addition, this will make it possible for the objective of the Porto Social Summit held on May 7-8, 2021 to be achieved. In its framework, the participants discussed strengthening of the European institutions’ commitment to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, one of their aspects being the reduction of the number of people exposed to the risk of social exclusion.

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