Background: A nurse’s commitment is the most important factor that influences her performance and depends on other variables. The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between length of service of the nurses with the amount of occupational commitment and organizational commitment. Methods: From Winter 2012 to Spring 2013, 266 nurses were chosen in selected hospitals of Social ...

Section 1110 of the Social Security Act provides for a cooperative research grants program. The grants given by the Social Security Administration (SSA) under this program are to nonprofit organizations for research in the broad area of social security. Reports on six recently completed grants projects are summarized below, accompanied by a list of completed SSA research grants projects, with t...

The Fourth International Social Security Association (ISSA) Meeting of Directors of Social Security Organizations in Asia and Pacific was held in Seoul from 9 to 11 November 2005 and was organized in cooperation with the National Health Insurance Corporation of the Republic of Korea. The Meeting was attended by 131 participants from 29 countries. Also at the Meeting were representatives from th...

periodic evaluation and monitoring the health and economic outcome of joint replacement surgery is a common and popular process under the territory of joint registries in many countries. in this article we introduce the methodology used for the foundation of the national iranian joint registry (ijr) with a joint collaboration of the social security organization (sso) and academic research depar...

The article that follows is a reprint of Part I of a report presented by Dalmer D. Hoskins, Secretary General of the International Social Security Association (ISSA), to the organization's XXIVth General Assembly (November 1992, Acapulco). It identifies and interprets the major trends currently influencing the evolution of social security programs around the world, and analyzes these developmen...

Social media provides both opportunities and risks for any organization. Secure integration of social media platforms in organizational ICT infrastructures tends to be focused mainly on technical aspects. Social media security management usually ignores the human dimension, but protection can only be achieved through a holistic approach. Social media security culture must be part of the overall...

International financial institutions have played an increasing role in the formation of social policy in Latin American countries over the last two decades, particularly in health and pension programs. World Bank loans and their attached policy conditions have promoted several social security reforms within a neoliberal framework that privileges the role of the market in the provision of health...