CONCEPTUAL AND HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK OF SOCIAL SECURITY

Abstract

This article presents a general overview of what is conceptually understood by social security; it emphasizes the fact that its emergence is due to the need that, in principle, the State is the entity that must provide benefits and services that allow the individual to compensate for the loss of part of his income, resulting from economic insecurity. It also presents an overview of the way in which social security has been evolving around the world and the way in which social security models have been adopted in Latin America and Mexico. Likewise, it alludes to the fact that social security is a changing system that adapts to the specific situation of each nation and that appears as a right in most of the Constitutions of modern States.