Keyword: «quality of life»

The article considers the "standard of living" of Russians. In the framework of this paper, an analysis of the average wage was carried out both for the country as a whole and for regions, which showed serious differences. The average pension of Russian pensioners for 2003-2017 was analyzed, as well as salaries for individual specialties.

The article presents the analysis of social development concept dynamics in social science, as well as the analysis and peculiarities of the concept formation and approaches to social development in the domestic science in particular. The basic concept of the research is that social development consists in ensuring the development of a person through the expansion of his social opportunities. The theoretical and methodological basis of our research is based on the idea of going from economic growth absolutization to socially responsible policy, which takes into account triggering the mechanism of Russian society economy socialization. In general, economy socialization is one of the world's trends in the development of society. It has the character of a stable tendency in the modern world, turning into a kind of refrain in the light of socially oriented development. At the same time, we take into account that in the system of key result indicators of social development, triggering the mechanism of economy socialization can determine at the regional level the following effects: people's well-being improvement; improvement of labor conditions and labor protection system; ensuring social guarantees in the sphere of labor and employment; improvement of employment relations index; improvement of regional ecological stability; reduction of regional conflict potential.

The article reveals the problems of small towns of Russia. The author analyzes the socio-economic potential of the town of Plavsk, Tula region, ranging from geopolitical potential, to the financial category. The development prospects of Plavsk as an important condition for improving the quality of the town’s population life are identified.

The article is of an overview nature and it is devoted to the issues of assessing the housing conditions of the Omsk region residents. The paper discusses the criteria by which various authors assess the quality of life of the population, and substantiates the importance of housing conditions as one of the important criteria. The author ponders upon the state of housing conditions, target programs that are implemented in the region.

The article is a review and reflects the opinion of other authors on the issues of assessing the quality of life in terms of health care system. The issues of assessing the quality of life are studied from the point of view of the world health organization. The authors examine and assess the condition of health care system in Russia and Omsk region.