Social Integration As A Direction For Humanization Of Economic Relations And Improvement Of Social Welfare

Abstract

The results of the implementation of EU policy in the field of social protection and social security are multidimensional particularly in the aspects of income and living standards, access to qualitative health care, education and work opportunities. Social integration is an instrument for achievement of these results especially promoting employment and poverty alleviation as well as monitoring the progress made in social protection. The aim of the paper is to study the process of social integration in the field of the promotion for social unity, gender equality and equal opportunities for all segments of the population (children, youth, retirees, disabled people) through flexible and effective social protection systems and social security policies. Systematic and evolutionary approaches, methods of observation, comparison, generalization and extrapolation were used in the study. The tools of social integration of people with disabilities to ensure their access to lifelong learning and employment are considered as they are the most vulnerable in society. The necessity of social integration and development of civic responsibility of youth is studied in order to realize the unity of goals, objectives and national priorities at different levels of economic and social development of society. This is especially important in the context of financial disproportion and significant social and economic differentiation of both the population and regions. A comprehensive approach to the development of major state programs and public welfare programs is inherent in a socially oriented and human-centered market economy. In the process of financing public welfare, the main goals of public policy implementation should be a support of welfare of both individuals and households; overcoming poverty; increase of economic efficiency of functioning of all processes of social integration. The modern economic theories of public welfare and human capital were also used. It is proved that in order to implement social integration successfully it is necessary: to improve the financial mechanism and normative base aimed at creating an effective system of targeted social payments; to provide implementation of a set of measures for the development and improvement of social services for the poor; to develop and implement measures for the prevention of disability and social integration of the disabled; to involve non-governmental organizations, associations and individuals in solution of social problems. Keywords: social integration, social protection, sustainable development, public welfare, poverty, economic development, strategic transformations.