Social protection as a tool for ensuring the social security of the population of Ukraine
Authors: Ivanisov Oleg 
Published: February 2024

The article examines directions for increasing the efficiency of the functioning of the social security system of the population of Ukraine. It was revealed that the potential of social security, unlike its socio-economic potential, has a limited significance, as it is formed systematically, depending on the availability of financial and other resources. Therefore, by analyzing the level of formation and use of the social security potential of the region, it is possible to assess the level of use of its structural components for improvement.
The development of the economy of any state is characterized, first of all, by creating a stable system of social security for the population. This is because development is associated with the continuous growth of problems with ensuring a decent quality of life for the population, assuming a constant solution to the issues of effective economic development, increasing issues, and obtaining financial and other resources to raise the standard of living of the population, creating conditions and incentives for improving the organization of the system social security and the rights of citizens to social protection, which is due to the corresponding standard of living of socially vulnerable sections of the population.
Many problems have arisen in creating socio-economic potential and developing the country in recent years. This hurts increasing the social security of the population, which, as is known, is the most important strategic resource that can ensure the country's sustainable economic development at a higher rate. Thus, the issues of improving the quality of life of the country's population, improving medical care and education, reducing unemployment, increasing the population, and other socio-economic problems should be resolved.
This necessitates severe changes in the formation of new directions for stimulating development and improving the management of the achieved social security potential of the population and the development of mechanisms that will contribute to solving the problems of improving the population's quality of life. It is equally essential to increase the role of managers of enterprises and organizations in creating effective motivational mechanisms, tools, and incentives for increasing the efficiency of production and development of the market economy, structure, and competitive environment, which ensure an increase in labor productivity and the standard of living of the country's population.
It should be noted that increasing the efficiency of the country's economic development and the quality of solving social problems is an urgent task for all levels of government, especially for regional authorities, which play an essential role in forming the practical potential of social security of the population. This is especially important in the organization of work to achieve decent living conditions for the population and the creation of favorable working conditions at enterprises and organizations, regardless of the forms of ownership, as well as in the development and application of forms and methods of social protection of low-income sections of the population, creating safe working conditions, improving the quality of life population of the country by creating conditions for improving the quality of life of all social groups.
Keywords: population, social security, social protection of the population, social protection potential of the region, socio-economic potential of the region.