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Cardiovascular diseases rank among chronic diseases that may have negative impact not only on the individual's economic activities but they may have radical impact also on the individual's common life and on its quality. The expenses on the therapy of heart and vessel diseases in the Czech Republic are paid predominantly from public health insurance and partially also in form of financial contribution of the citizens, consisting particularly in payment for medicines. This article, based on the implemented project ...

The paper concentrates on a study of the cluster-based concept of regional economies development. It has been empirically proven that the cluster-based approach appears to be one of the most effective instruments for regional economic growth and businesses integration. The approach is premised on formation of territorial-industrial clusters within which a network of interacting private, municipal and state enterprises, organizations and institutions is setup which facilitates joint efforts to address particular ec...

The purpose of the study is to develop methodological bases for diagnosing promising labor markets to forecast the staffing needs for the high-tech and innovative sectors of the regional economy. The complexity of the task is in the need to identify intellectual and human resources for promising commodity and labor markets, which currently do not have business customers. Existing methods for assessing the staffing needs cannot fully consider the changes in the strategic priorities for the regional development. As ...

This study investigates the rural population distribution in the Republic of Tatarstan. This article considers the rural population and settlements of Tatarstan Republic in terms of development and distribution factors from 1950ies to the present day. The paper analyzes the main factors influencing the placement of rural settlements such as geographic, demographic, natural, transportational, economic and socio-domestic. The authors have examined the rural population migration as well as changes in the rural popula...

The Arctic development is closely related with the growth of labor potential and requires rise in number of population and labor resources according to economic, political and military interests of the state. In this sense, the problem of social-economic and economic-geographical development of Arctic and Northern regions and its monitoring has vital importance. Currently, research on social, economic, demographical processes on municipal level of the Arctic Russia and foreign countries has great importance. This ...

The regularities of the evolution of the theory of sustainable socio-economic development of regions in Russia and foreign countries are revealed. It is concluded that the foundation of the modern theory of sustainable regional development of foreign countries is the fundamental provisions of neoclassical, neo-Keynesian and institutional theory, as well as spatial economics. They are the base of highly developed countries’ regional policies, aimed at ensuring sustainable, balanced social and economic development o...

After the war in Kosovo, the country declared the independence, and the European Union’s mission after Kosovo’s independence will be the focus of this paper. The history of the newest state in the Europe and the course of its relations with Serbia over the last century will be reviewed in this paper is well. NATO’s intervention, which definitely split Kosovo from Serbia, has created the possibility for the EU mission in the country. One side as if had played a positive role in the region, as is considered by the m...

The social dimension of state culture and art at the regional level is an important task of the state and involves the assessment of the quality of services once a year for several cultural organizations. We propose a unified model of independent assessment of the quality of services of organizations of culture using the automated information system of accounting of three metrics: opinions of recipients of services, and the availability of information on two official websites of the organization. The results of th...

This paper identifies the steps, parameters and criteria for evaluating technologies in terms of its potential for creating new sectors in the economy of resource region. We established the key principles for prioritizing the directions of technological development: maximizing the technology’s potential for future economy, integrating the effects of regional development with national economy. The study is based on an analysis of the global and national trends in technological development, identification of technol...

The article focuses on analysis of the innovation environment of regions in Central Europe, using the example of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Our own research is based on data of NUTS II and the construction of an aggregate indicator, which maps key economic, labour market and innovative indicators relevant for describing the innovative potential of the regions. The main sources of data were Eurostat and national statistics offices in selected countries. Metropolitan regions have a higher inno...

Tourism has an advantageous multiplier effect and severs as an accelerator of the social-economic development. Using a method of a component analysis the most significant indexes for differentiation of territory of Republic Tatarstan with purposes of recreation and tourism were detected. Map - models were constructed and by their superposition the integrated map of a recreational potential of Tatar Republic was obtained and the attractive areas for rest and tourism were detected. Using a method of a component anal...

With this article attempts to determine the impact of instruments reflecting regional differences between individual spatially limited territories. The assessment of the influence of instruments measuring socio-economic development is one of the main reasons for optimizing the process of introducing policies for better governance in administrative territorial units. The purpose of the study is to analyze the impact of the instruments which reflectings the effectiveness of the policies undertaken for the management...

It is interesting to follow the process of modernization in industrial metallurgy of the Ural and how it has been realized for three hundred years of its existence and what characteristic features it has had in each period of its development. However, until recently, there was no common, scientifically accepted historical periodization of the metallurgy industry in the Urals, although a number of authors considered the problem. To the authors questions of the periodization of the history of metallurgy in the Urals...

The article explores the system arrangement and determination of a methodology of a new scientific branch in the system of financial law – regional financial law. The work is an attempt to analyze a possible development of the financial law system through changing approaches in the methodology of studying financial law, meaning consideration of financial law system not only horizontally but also vertically, highlighting a new trend in the study of financial law – regional financial law, which, in the authors view,...