Minimum income for healthy living

Objectives: We sought to estimate the costs of implementing the current recommendations for healthy choices for a mother with two young children in Atlanta, Georgia. ^ Methods: Current recommendations for healthy choices promoted by the federal government or other credible source were compiled and operationalized into specific conditions or behaviors. The costs of implementing these choices in Atlanta were estimated by using internet searches of retailers/suppliers, phone interviews, and direct observation. The least expensive option was chosen when options were available. ^ Results: Recommendations for choosing a healthy neighborhood, home, school, child care, food, physical activity, and maintaining healthy relationships as well as access to health care were considered. Total costs for this family of three totaled $38,181. Housing, child care, and health insurance contributed to 78% of the total costs. ^ Conclusions: The minimum income needed to choose healthy choices falls short of current wages, and eligibility levels and benefits for income support. ^

L'impact de la densité syndicale et du salaire minimum sur l'inégalité des revenus dans les provinces canadiennes, 1981-2008

Bien qu'il soit désormais établi que les institutions du travail (tel que la syndicalisation et le salaire minimum) aient eu pour effet de réduire l'inégalité des salaires entre les travailleurs au Canada et dans d'autres pays industrialisés, leur impact sur l'inégalité des revenus entre les familles ou les ménages reste incertain. Cette étude a pour but d'estimer l'impact de la densité syndicale et du salaire minimum réel sur l'évolution de l'inégalité des revenus de marché entre les ménages canadiens durant les années 1981 à 2008. À partir d'une base de données qui intègre des données annuelles agrégées par province, et en maintenant constant un ensemble de facteurs, les estimations par effets fixes indiquent que la densité syndicale a réduit l'inégalité des revenus mesurée au moyen du coefficient de Gini, alors que le salaire minimum réel a plutôt eu pour effet d'accroître celle-ci. Les résultats d'estimation indiquent également que le taux d'activité et la scolarité moyenne sont les principaux facteurs à avoir réduit l'inégalité des revenus, alors que le taux de chômage, le changement technologique (mesuré de différentes façons) et l'immigration récente ont contribué à l'accroître.

The income requirements of marine protected areas

Given the growing impact of human activities on the sea, managers are increasingly turning to marine protected areas (MPAs) to protect marine habitats and species. Many MPAs have been unsuccessful, however, and lack of income has been identified as a primary reason for failure. In this study, data from a global survey of 79 MPAs in 36 countries were analysed and attempts made to construct predictive models to determine the income requirements of any given MPA. Statistical tests were used to uncover possible patterns and relationships in the data, with two basic approaches. In the first of these, an attempt was made to build an explanatory "bottom-up" model of the cost structures that might be required to pursue various management activities. This proved difficult in practice owing to the very broad range of applicable data, spanning many orders of magnitude. In the second approach, a "top-down" regression model was constructed using logarithms of the base data, in order to address the breadth of the data ranges. This approach suggested that MPA size and visitor numbers together explained 46% of the minimum income requirements (P < 0.001), with area being the slightly more influential factor. The significance of area to income requirements was of little surprise, given its profile in the literature. However, the relationship between visitors and income requirements might go some way to explaining why northern hemisphere MPAs with apparently high incomes still claim to be under-funded. The relationship between running costs and visitor numbers has important implications not only in determining a realistic level of funding for MPAs, but also in assessing from where funding might be obtained. Since a substantial proportion of the income of many MPAs appears to be utilized for amenity purposes, a case may be made for funds to be provided from the typically better resourced government social and educational budgets as well as environmental budgets. Similarly visitor fees, already an important source of funding for some MPAs, might have a broader role to play in how MPAs are financed in the future. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Les politiques de revenu minimum dans les provinces canadiennes : une étude comparée de l’aide sociale au Canada

L’objectif de ce mémoire est d’identifier les déterminants de la générosité de l’aide sociale au Canada. Plus précisément, quels sont les facteurs qui expliquent les variations entre les montants d’aide sociale entre les provinces canadiennes de 1990 à 2009? Pourquoi le Québec, la Saskatchewan et Terre-Neuve-Labrador sont plus généreux que le Nouveau-Brunswick et l’Alberta? L’analyse de ces 10 politiques distinctes est produite à partir d’un cadre théorique quadripartite qui inclut le rôle des acteurs (partis politiques et syndicats), les traits institutionnels (dépenses publiques et engagement à la redistribution), les contraintes budgétaires (taux d’assistance sociale, dette, économie) et le rôle du gouvernement fédéral (montant et type de transfert). Les résultats démontrent que l’aide sociale est une politique hautement dépendante au sentier et incrémentale. Des transferts fédéraux à coût partagé et un taux de syndicalisation élevé sont des facteurs qui exercent une influence positive sur la générosité des provinces. À l’inverse, les partis de droite ainsi qu’une situation budgétaire difficile ont un impact négatif. Il faut noter que la richesse économique des provinces n’est pas associée à une plus grande générosité de l’aide sociale, au contraire les prestations d’aide sociale étaient plus faibles en 2009 qu’en 1990 malgré un PIB qui a presque doublé. De plus, des provinces riches comme l’Alberta et la Colombie-Britannique sont peu généreuses. Finalement, il faut noter que les partis politiques de gauche n’ont pas l’effet positif escompté sur la générosité des politiques de revenu minimum.

Les politiques de revenu minimum dans les provinces canadiennes : une étude comparée de l’aide sociale au Canada

L’objectif de ce mémoire est d’identifier les déterminants de la générosité de l’aide sociale au Canada. Plus précisément, quels sont les facteurs qui expliquent les variations entre les montants d’aide sociale entre les provinces canadiennes de 1990 à 2009? Pourquoi le Québec, la Saskatchewan et Terre-Neuve-Labrador sont plus généreux que le Nouveau-Brunswick et l’Alberta? L’analyse de ces 10 politiques distinctes est produite à partir d’un cadre théorique quadripartite qui inclut le rôle des acteurs (partis politiques et syndicats), les traits institutionnels (dépenses publiques et engagement à la redistribution), les contraintes budgétaires (taux d’assistance sociale, dette, économie) et le rôle du gouvernement fédéral (montant et type de transfert). Les résultats démontrent que l’aide sociale est une politique hautement dépendante au sentier et incrémentale. Des transferts fédéraux à coût partagé et un taux de syndicalisation élevé sont des facteurs qui exercent une influence positive sur la générosité des provinces. À l’inverse, les partis de droite ainsi qu’une situation budgétaire difficile ont un impact négatif. Il faut noter que la richesse économique des provinces n’est pas associée à une plus grande générosité de l’aide sociale, au contraire les prestations d’aide sociale étaient plus faibles en 2009 qu’en 1990 malgré un PIB qui a presque doublé. De plus, des provinces riches comme l’Alberta et la Colombie-Britannique sont peu généreuses. Finalement, il faut noter que les partis politiques de gauche n’ont pas l’effet positif escompté sur la générosité des politiques de revenu minimum.

Standard of Healthy Living on the Island of Ireland

Pre-requisites for health are equity, minimum income, nutrition, peace, water, sanitation, housing, education, work, political will and public support (WHO, 1986). It has long been known that social disadvantage harms health (Black, 1980, Ettner, 1996). Many researchers have documented that those in lower socio-economic groups are more at risk of developing major chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (Beaglehole and Yach, 2003, WHO, 2003a), diabetes (Wilder et al., 2005), and some cancers (Brunner et al., 1993, Strong et al., 2005), and are at a higher risk of having multiple risk factors associated with these diseases (Lynch et al., 1997). The living standards that many people enjoy and the behavioural choices they make are heavily determined by their access to resources such as income, wealth, goods and services (O’Flynn and Murphy, 2001). The most prominent explanation between disadvantage and health is that lack of resources restricts access to the fundamental conditions of health such as adequate housing (Macintyre et al., 2003, Macintyre et al., 2005), good nutrition (Nelson et al., 2002) and opportunities to participate in society (McDonough et al., 2005). Each of these issues are very much influenced by material and structural factors inherent to and determined by fiscal, social and health policy (Graham and Kelly, 2004, Milio, 1986).

Health Inequalities and the Living Wage

Evidence Review 6 - Health inequalities and the living wage Briefing 6 - Health inequalities and the living wage This pair of documents, commissioned by Public Health England, and written by the UCL Institute of Health Equity, address the role of a minimum income in improving health. These papers provide a summary of evidence on the health impacts of living on a low income. They assess the evidence around how the living wage addresses low incomes, health and health inequalities. The living wage is an hourly minimum wage, optional for employers, calculated according to the basic cost of living. Local authorities and other organisations that have implemented the living wage for their staff are presented as case study interventions to show how it is possible, the challenges faced and how they were overcome and any reported income, health and business benefits. The full evidence review and a shorter summary briefing are available to download above. This document is part of a series. An overview document which provides an introduction to this and other documents in the series, and links to the other topic areas, is available on the ‘Local Action on health inequalities’ project page. A video of Michael Marmot introducing the work is also available on our videos page.

La renda mínima d'inserció: una eina útil d’inserció social en el món local

La crisi actual ha agreujat la situació socioeconòmica de nombroses persones i famílies , esdevenint una realitat social cada vegada més complexa . Aquest nou context, ha portat a que aquesta nova bossa de persones hagin de recórrer a demanar suport als serveis socials bàsics. Persones que fins aquest moment havien estat en una situació normalitzada i en aquests moments estan en el llindar de l’exclusió social. El treball Sorgeix de la necessitat del món local, concretament de l’Àrea Bàsica de Serveis Socials del Consell Comarcal de l’Alt Penedès, de disposar d’eines d’inserció social per a les persones perceptores de la renda mínima d’inserció de la comarca, que formen part d’aquest col·lectiu en risc d’exclusió. Planteja la importància que des del món local es creïn aliances amb entitats , associacions diverses i de diferents àmbits , per tal d’adequar les respostes i les mesures d’inserció social segons la realitat de cada persona i família a través de diferents tasques col·laboratives, dins la seva comunitat, el seu entorn més immediat. Presenta la renda mínima com una via útil i necessària per lluitar contra la pobresa i a favor de la inclusió social

Sistemas de integração de arrecadação e benefícios previdenciários

O trabalho examina alguns modelos de integração de arrecadação de tributos e concessão de benefícios (elaborados por Richard Musgrave e James Meade) e aplica-os à realidade brasileira. A principal conclusão é que os esquemas de renda básica são impraticáveis devido a alta alíquota exigida, restando a opção de trabalharmos com esquemas de renda mínima parcial.

Renda mínima garantida - prós e contras

O projeto procura levantar aspectos positivos e negativos de um programa de renda mínima. Examina também experiências de programas de dispêndio para os pobres em países desenvolvidos e comenta sobre aspectos que poderiam ser melhor avaliados por pesquisadores brasileiros.

A escola enquanto espaço privilegiado de construção de "meninos de verdade" :concepções e valores atribuidos a essa instituição por crianças pobres

The intention of this study was to identify the school conception (conceptions) in the discourse of poor children. There were inquired two groups of subjects: the first was composed of children that inserted precociously themselves into the work market and must to go to school because they take part in one of the governmental programs, called, minimum income programs. The second will be composed of children that live in the poorest district in Natal/RN city. And don´t have obligatoriness to go to school. Thus, thematics like precocious work, minimum income program, capitalism, neoliberalism was aproached in our discussion. We also intended to make a illustrate with Pinochio Adventures fable, because its conception school is similar like real official discourse school from everybody. In cited narrative, the character Gepeto didn t know what s a truth child but knows that exist a place in city where his maledoll Pinochio would be one the school. Thus, this institution was destine by the justice and politics from Gepetos s city how children right. Pinochio, in the book s end, to be transformed himself in a truth child because learned in school responsible and goodness behaviors. To uphold our inquiry we used the Content Analysis and socio-historical perspectives. The result showed that the children know that exist differents schools: yours and other, to rich class. Their school is admited like good, it is a study place, it isn´t disorders place; and also make propotional to social ascencion. The children s discourses is similar to capitalism s discourse

Os sentidos do Programa Bolsa Família nas relações sociais dos seus beneficiários

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Programa de complementação de renda Bolsa-Família: política de Estado ou política de governo?

Este artigo apresenta uma avaliação política da concepção e da formulação de uma política social, cuja estratégia prioritária são os programas de transferência monetária. Nesse sentido, esta pesquisa objetiva explicitar o delineamento de uma política de renda mínima no Brasil e toma como referência o processo de unificação dos programas de garantia de renda existentes na realidade brasileira em torno do programa Bolsa-Família. Este trabalho pretende também investigar a existência ou não de um conceito de necessidades no debate contemporâneo sobre renda mínima e a adoção desse conceito nas atuais políticas sociais brasileiras de distribuição de renda.

Planes sociales con contraprestación educativa a comienzos de la década de dos mil : una mirada retrospectiva

En el presente artículo se analizan críticamente algunas características de las políticas sociales y educativas implementadas en nuestro país durante la última década, considerándose principalmente el caso del Plan Jefas de Hogar (Mendoza, 2000-2003). La especificidad de este programa de ingreso mínimo radica en que la contraprestación exigida a las beneficiarias es educativa. Las conclusiones a las que se arriba en relación a la temática de políticas públicas se enmarca en el debate acerca del tipo de estrategias necesarias para la superación de la crisis estructural de comienzos de la década.

Análise económica e financeira da reabilitação na construção

O setor da construção tem evoluído ao longo dos anos, quer em termos de processos construtivos, quer em termos de materiais aplicados, tendo sempre em conta a relação custo/prazo/qualidade. Atualmente existe uma grande quantidade de edifícios cujo tempo de vida útil está a chegar ao fim e cujas estruturas e materiais se vêm a degradar progressivamente. É então necessário proceder à sua demolição e posterior construção de uma edificação nova ou então recorrer a processos de reabilitação, que visam conservar o património arquitetónico e procurar corresponder às solicitações e exigências regulamentares requeridas. Isto leva a outro ponto, que é a análise do investimento e a verificação da rentabilidade do projeto. A presente dissertação, inserida no Mestrado em Conservação e Reabilitação do Edificado, tem como objetivos fazer uma análise económica e financeira a vários edifícios intervencionados, verificando a viabilidade do projeto e determinando o período de retorno do investimento. O caso de estudo é um conjunto de quatro edifícios de custos controlados que foram reabilitados pelo exterior com o objetivo de melhorar o comportamento térmico, bem como as condições interiores das habitações, a nível de instalações e acústica. Por sua vez, os objetivos da presente dissertação incidem especificamente no isolamento térmico dos edifícios, na substituição das caixilharias e das janelas, das caixas de estore e dos estores. Foram realizadas medições de temperatura e humidade relativa antes, durante e após a reabilitação, através de um aparelho medidor Hygropalm, da Rotronic. Foram também registados os consumos energéticos (eletricidade, água e gás) antes e após a reabilitação. Posteriormente procedeu-se à análise e comparação de resultados em termos de custos para os moradores, bem como a análise de investimento para o dono dos edifícios. Foram também registadas as rendas que os moradores poderão pagar, estando divididas em três tipos: renda mínima, renda média e renda máxima e depois procedeu-se a uma análise financeira para cada uma delas. Considerando o investimento feito na reabilitação e analisando quatro cenários diferentes e sua receita respectiva (lucros expectáveis), sendo a receita correspondente à poupança energética e a cada tipo de renda, verificou-se que o investimento tinha retorno passados muitos anos.