Abstract:

Social justice refers to morally defensible distribution of benefits/rewards in society, evaluated in terms wages/housing/medical care/welfare benefits and so on. Social security as a social policy instrument will also be effective/succeed when its aforementioned aim is achieved. According to the ILO, humanizing globalization can be achieved by social justice. Therefore the ILO has placed to realize social justice into the new social security approach/policies. The purpose of this study is to evaluate to what extent is closer to the social justice ideal of the social security reform in Turkey (2008). It focuses on universal health and old-age insurances branches expressed as the main axis of reform. Universal health insurance reform empowers social justice: to scope of protection the people; to participate the state to funding; to facilitate access to health services etc. Nevertheless difference in service payments are some praxes which shatter social justice. Old-age insurance also blows the cobwebs away which get away from social justice.

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