Assessment of Threats and Ensuring Economic Security in the Area of Quality of Life of the Population of the SFD

Objective of the study. Ensuring the economic security of the region is an important national priority of the country, since it determines the ability of the economic system to maintain normal conditions and quality of life for the population of the territory. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to identify threats that upset the balance and stability of the functioning of the regional economic system, as well as to develop a set of measures and methods that are aimed at increasing the efficiency of the operation of economic facilities and infrastructure of the regional market, which determine the level of income of various social groups and the social well-being of the population of the Southern Federal District. The methodological basis of the research. Regional economic security is studied from the standpoint of a systematic approach, which allows one to determine the structure of negative impacts in terms of indicators in various spheres of life and develop a system of measures to eliminate them in the social sphere of the macroregion. Research results. Based on the assessment of risks and threats, recommendations were proposed for ensuring the economic security of the Southern Federal District in the field of the quality of life of the population: increasing the number of educational and sports events within the framework of state programs of the Russian Federation; improving the level of medical care; informational and technical support of the population's access to state and municipal services; financial support by the federal center for the provision of housing to orphans and children left without parental care; toughening the responsibility of organizations responsible for the functioning of communal engineering infrastructure and providing the population with high-quality drinking water. Prospects of the study. The proposed recommendations require the development of management decisions, the effectiveness of which depends on the economic effect obtained from their implementation, as well as on the compliance of the regulatory, financial and investment, organizational methods implemented by federal and regional authorities.