E-training has come to the fore as a means of enabling training programmes to be offered to the organization’s officials on a large scale. Until now, the method has relied on so-called Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), and more specifically the Moodle platform, which is used by the institution.

The aim is to improve this training method by adopting videoconferencing as an e-training tool, using synchronous techniques to enable real-time interaction between speakers in different locations and, with other strategies, to replicate on-site courses.

Consolidated procurement is when multiple contracts for medication and healthcare supplies from multiple healthcare providers are bundled together in a single tender.

The advantages of this for social security and the healthcare system include:

• The State Employees’ Social Security and Social Services Institute (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado – ISSSTE) has been offering pensioners and retirees nationwide the opportunity to take part in sporting events in athletics, swimming, tai chi and catchball, through the DeportISSSTE programme since 1995.
• These events encourage older people to engage in physical activity and a healthy lifestyle, thus improving the retirees’ quality of life.
• Since these state, regional and national events began more tha

Most patients requiring Unrelated Bone Marrow Transplantation – UBMT (trasplante de médula ósea no emparentado – TMO-NE) through Peru’s Social Health Insurance Institute (Seguro Social de Salud – EsSalud) are being treated for leukaemia, and the majority of these are children.

There was a year in Mexico when identity theft increased by 141 per cent. According to statistics from the Bank of Mexico, the country has the eighth highest rate of identity theft in the world (Gazette No. 2667, Chamber of Deputies: 2016).

As regards the State Employees' Social Security and Social Services Institute (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado – ISSSTE), weaknesses were found in the personal loan approval process that facilitated the falsification of ID documents and loan application forms.

Since 2014, a cash benefit allowance is paid to millions of recipients in the month of March of every year to the most needy people and families. This benefit is called the “March Permanent Family Benefit” (Aporte Familiar Permanente Marzo – AFPM) which consolidates through the use of better technology the payment of various extraordinary allowances dating back to 2009 by standardizing the process, setting the selection criteria for beneficiaries, and issuing beneficiaries’ lists.

The Historical Reparation for Retirees and Pensioners Act (Ley de Reparación Histórica para Jubilados y Pensionados) of June 2016 provides for the current pension benefits of retirees and pensioners to be fully recalculated and where the discrepancies are in the beneficiaries’ favour, settlement offers are offered and which are then subject to judiciary approval to avoid future litigation.

• There are learned behaviors among men that make them feel like “superheroes”: hiding pain, postponing visits to the doctor and minimizing any physical indication that something is not right.
• This results in an increase in diseases and in male mortality in Mexico.
• Our campaign seeks to foster a culture of prevention and self-care among men in Mexico.

The Catholic Workers’ Circle of the Uruguay Mutual Fund (Círculo Católico de Obreros del Uruguay Mutualista – CCOUM) is part of the integrated national health system in Uruguay. In this regard, it is a provider of total health coverage as it has been a link of the country’s social security system thanks to its mutual structure.

Currently, it has approximately 92,529 members and 2,239 workers, 679 (31 per cent) of whom are nursing staff.

Improving the quality of services is an ongoing task that involves multiple dimensions such as listening to and evaluating the participants, transparency, excellence and investment in training as the main focus.

Hospitalization is an experience that involves both physical and emotional risks for the patient and family as well as institutional costs. Lowering these is the challenge of this good practice.