Issue #3 (Volume 16 2018)

The article presents the content and the meaning of “social responsibility” of Health care institutions. Also, it is given the author’s definition of this phenomenon and it is defined the components of social responsibility of Health care institutions. There are basic international standards documentation in the field of social responsibility of Health care institutions researched and directions of their usage and further development for modern Health care institutions justified. The problems of forming practice of social behavior, medical ethics, deontology and human rights in conditions of stable development and realization relevant professional skills and competences which support the formation of social behavior are defined.

The essence of travel insurance is analyzed in the article. Key indicators of the competitiveness of travel insurance in insurance companies have been identified with using the method of multivariate factor analysis. A new method of calculation of integral indicator of competitiveness and a methodical approach to the definition of the insurance company's competitiveness class is proposed with using of cluster and discriminatory analysis. In the first stage, cluster analysis was used which allow to divide insurance companies into the classes of competitiveness. Classification functions were developed based on discriminant analysis. These functions can be used to assess the competitiveness of insurance companies that are not included in the sample, but required analysis and development of measures to improve the competitiveness of travel insurance.

Proved that at the present stage of economic development of state, environmental and socio-economic security plays an important role. The achievement of which is possible through the process of managing of invarionmental safety of the enterprise. It is considered that the purpose of the article is to study the implementation details of the environmental security of an enterprise. It will solve the problems of ecological-economic interaction and will allow building a sustainable development economy, that is, an environmentally and socially balanced economy. The purpose of the article is to study the process of management of enterprise security. The existing processes of enterprise safety management are investigated. The stages of the process of management of enterprise security of the enterprise are offered.

The study developed a methodical approach to the choice of a strategy for financial implementation for sustainable development (FISD) of the agribusiness entity, which combines five stages, their content is disclosed and justified. It was proposed on the basis of a combination of three parameters: the level of sustainable development of the agribusiness entity, the form of financing used by him and the direction of influence from the external environment, the construction of a cube of FISD strategies, and the characteristics of the selected parameters. The list is presented and the main content of the rules for the selection of the FISD strategy is revealed, depending on the results of positioning the agribusiness entity in the existing cube.

In the conditions of intensification of bank lending, the issues of the need to overcome the consequences of the global financial crisis and the formation of a well-developed and effectively functioning credit market are of particular relevance. The dynamics of assets, credits of Ukrainian banks and the share of credits in assets during the last five years is researched. The structure of credits provided by type of borrower and by currency is considered. The classification of credits by categories of quality, distribution by classes of the borrower are analyzed and amounts of overdue debts are determined. The influence of credit operations parameters on the coefficient of return rate on assets of banks is justified and this influence is quantified by means of correlation and regression analysis. The model of the dependence of the coefficient of return rate on assets on the coefficients of the share of credits in assets and the net interest margin is developed. The prospects of development of the Ukrainian credit market are identified and ways of increasing the efficiency of banking credit activity are proposed.

In conditions of modern economic transformations, an in-depth understanding of the essence of the state financial regulation of human potential in the system of ensuring socio-economic development of the country is important. It is important to use a holistic architecture of financial regulation of the economy, further development of provisions on institutional mechanisms of financial provision of human potential, which purposefully applied by state institutions. The proper level of validity of the priority directions of the state financial policy for the development of human potential will contribute to the effectiveness of structural changes in the economy and social sphere. It is proved that the system of state financial regulation of human development needs constant improvement taking into account progressive methods, adaptation to internal and external economic factors in conditions of institutional transformations of the economy. Based on the study of the theoretical foundations of the state financial regulation of human development, its essence is disclosed as an integral part of social development, which involves the use of a set of norms, rules, methods, forms, mechanisms and instruments of financial architecture, in order to provide conditions for improving the quality of the institutional environment of the model of economic growth and an increase in the level of human development in the conditions of strengthening the influence of integration processes on macroeconomic dynamics that will promote the increase of the effective structural changes in the economy and social sphere.

In the article modern methodological approaches to the assessment of the creditworthiness of local authorities was analyzed, group of indicators used by rating to assessing the creditworthiness of local governments was presented. The author was proposed a methodological approach to assessing the creditworthiness of local authorities based on the using of factor analysis and took into account indicators that characterize the financial and debt sustainability of the local budget. The application of the proposed methodological approach will allow potential investors of local authorities to assess the level of risk of comparable city with a view to making a decision on investing in their local bonds; local authorities-borrowers - to conduct a diagnosis of their creditworthiness in any reporting period.

In the modern conditions, households play a rather important role in the country's economy. Therefore, it is necessary to have reliable information about trends and changes in their activities. The information basis for the development of socio-economic activity of households is monitoring research, by which it is possible to develop a better strategy for improving their activities. The article substantiates the difference between the monitoring process and the assessment of the socio-economic activity of households. An analysis of foreign experience in the use of panel research of households’ activity was carried out. The passport of the monitoring of households’ socio-economic activity is presented, and it shows two subsystems: organizational, technological and providing. We propose the organizational and technological scheme of monitoring. The stages and time frames of monitoring of socio-economic activities of households were clearly structured in the scheme. The form of the report of the monitoring process is developed.