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The main goal of the present work is to form the basis of organizational and economic mechanism of pioneering development of agroindustrial complex of Italy in order to increase the national level of food security suitable for extrapolating this experience on other developed countries and countries in transition. In order to achieve the set goal, the work studied basic peculiarities of social and economic development of Italy within the European Union, researched theoretical and methodological approaches to solving the problem of food security, offered solutions contributing to the transfer of agroindustrial complex of Italy to the innovational way of development that will contribute to the growth of national food security. In the article special methods of research were used: content analysis of scientific sources, comparative economic and statistical analysis based on using open data. The results of the research include the development of basic recommendations on forming organizational and economic mechanism that provides the transfer of agroindustrial complex of Italy to the pioneering way of development that will contribute to the growth of food security of the country. The obtained results and conclusions may be used to solve similar problems in agroindustrial complexes of other countries. © 2016, SRAC - Societatea Romana Pentru Asigurarea Calitatii. All rights reserved.

Europe is undergoing the strongest migration crisis that in terms of its importance can be compared with the migration crisis caused by the Second World War. This article researches the coherence of "catastrophic" hypothesis related to the current migration crisis in Europe, and considers the risks and consequences of this crisis for the social and economic development of the European region. The materials stated in the article enable the authors to make the following conclusions: Migration as an objective phenomenon that comes with globalization phenomena will always maintain its historical focus from the lagging regions of the world in terms of economic and social development to more developed and democratically free regions, The current migration crisis in Europe has been caused by an abrupt increase in the migrants' inflow to the region (2-5 times during 2015 as compared to 2014), as well as by the lack of coordination in the actions of representatives of the executive power of European countries, including the lack of distinct and efficient measures aiming at regulating the abruptly increased migration inflow, The "catastrophic" scenarios of the current migration crisis based on historical parallels (for example, the fall of the Western Roman Imperia and the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation) offered in some scientific and publicist articles have insufficiently objective grounds, Countries of Europe (and including the European Union) must take into account and forecast probable risks that will come with the current migration crisis (social and political instability that will cause destructive phenomena in economy), and The European region may extract potential profits from the migration crisis, successively pursuing the policy of securitization, integration and assimilation of migrants and herewith finding the balance between the efficient tolerance to newcomers and the required level of safety for the indigenous population. © 2017, ASERS Publishing House. All rights reserved.

This article examines major methodological approaches to assessment of public health and to calculation of indicators describing the impact of specific factors on the state and quality of the nation's health. The method for calculating the National Health Quality Indicator (NHQI) was suggested as a scientific novelty, which incorporates three qualitative groups of parameters (quality of life, quality of healthcare, and quality of society). The method involves large-scale formula-methodological tools, which allow to conduct a comparative-differential analysis of the dynamics of the National Health Quality Indicator between countries and regions. The following conclusions have been obtained based on the materials presented in the article: It has been justified that public health is a key resource that ensures shaping of a national labor potential and intellectual capital required for a sustainable and environmentally responsible socio-economic development. Qualitative indicators of public health determine the maturity of the national economy and the social sector; The World Health Organization conducts monitoring of global public health; it is objectively obvious that the structure and morbidity of the global public has changed significantly: somatic (diabetes) and psychosomatic disorders (neurosis, depression) dominate, along with new infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS); A modified method was proposed for analyzing the quality of public health in a certain country or region, which includes three groups of evaluative dimensions and is supplemented by tools for comparative-differential analysis between countries and regions in the form of the "National Health Quality Indicator" model; and The method was tested by the example of three associations of countries grouped on economic grounds: BRICS countries, leading member states of the European Union (EU-15), the USA and Canada, which form a CUSFTA partnership. The data resulting from the analysis confirm the empirical thesis of this article and also suggest that qualitative indicators of public health are largely determined by the quality and dynamics of the socio-economic development of countries and regions. © 2017, SRAC - Societatea Romana Pentru Asigurarea Calitatii. All rights reserved.