Martseniuk O. Social protection of the population of Ukraine.

Abstract

It was consider the concept and the basic forms of social security of the population. Made a statistical analysis of the elements of social protection of the population of Ukraine, which are determined by indicators such as the cost of living, minimum and average wages, income level, and which have been adjusted by a factor of inflation. It has been established that the social protection of the poorest segments of the population meets the minimum standards established by the legislation of Ukraine. The basic problems of social protection of the population of Ukraine, namely the poverty of the working population. Analyzed the expectations of the population in terms of income and found that nearly 50% of the population feels poor. Poverty was established as one of the limiting factors of socio-economic development of Ukraine's population. The basic directions of social protection of the population in order to prevent threats and potential problems such as: ensuring the implementation of state social programs aimed at solving priority social problems in the regions, improving the quality of the development strategy of regional development of regional policy focus on sustainable socio-economic development and self-development region, effective implementation of the regional program to promote entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility, the social organization of monitoring the activities of state and regional bodies and local authorities, of the search for new effective innovative mechanisms to overcome the social problems of depressed areas.