THE QUALITY FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONS AND LIVING CONDITIONS

Abstract

Topicality. It is considered an indisputable factor that quality is one of the decisive factors of both any production activity and the development of any socio-economic system. Quality problems arise in almost all spheres and at all stages of human activity. Quality is the leading category of production, goods, services, works, etc. In the modern conditions of the widespread complication of life at all levels of the organization of the human community, the problems of a new understanding of the issues of the quality of development and life of a person and society as a whole, the formation of new methodologies for learning about the quality of development are actualized. This formulation of the problem is connected with the need to solve both scientific and practical tasks of improving the management of the quality of development and the quality of human life.Aim and tasks. The aim of this work is to pay attention to the issue of improving methodological and methodical approaches to understanding problems that are becoming more complicated and increasingly relevant, modern problems of the quality of development in the spatio-temporal aspect and improving the quality of life of the population of Ukraine.
 Materials and methods. Scientific articles, monographic publications, abstracts of dissertations served as materials for this study. The work used methods of content analysis, systems approach, in particular methods of parametric systems theory.
 Research results. In accordance with the tasks set, the article discusses one of the main problems of modern development - the problem of quality. Quality as a category of the theory of social progress is considered not only in the traditional representation of the quality of production, but also as a category of the theory of territorial development, in particular the quality of the development of regions and the quality of life of the population, which is conditioned. In the work, special attention is paid to the understanding of the quality of the development of the objects being studied from the standpoint of the parametric theory of systems, which uses the methodology of the "ternary description language" (TMD) of complex developing objects.
 Conclusion. The methodological and methodical approaches to the systematic presentation of the quality of development of regions and the quality of life of the population considered in the work determine some specific ways of solving the problems of survival in complex conflicts and crisis situations of modern development.