The set of activities that contribute to the integrated self-expression of a person’s personality in the process of identifying his needs in the process of providing various types of services is a social infrastructure. The definition of this concept is built on the existence of such forms of human activity that they require to meet the needs for labor and material support.
There are several approaches to solving issues of internal construction and classification of parts, which includes the social structure. The main approach deals with three functional target blocks:
1) Socio-political and cultural activities, which include education, science, art, media activities, culture.
2) Maintaining and restoring the health of citizens - healthcare, sports, tourism and environmental protection.
3) Public services - housing and communal services, trade, public transport.
The functions that the social infrastructure performs are determined by the goals of the economic development of the whole society: achieving equality in society and the harmonious development of the human person. Of these, the most important and targeted are:
1) the creation of conditions for progressive trends in society;
2) the production of labor, which could qualitatively meet the needs of society and the levels of production;
3) the correct use of labor resources;
4) ensuring comfortable living conditions for the population;
5) maintaining and improving the level of physical health of members of society;
6) productive use of free time.
Social infrastructure sets as its main goal the comprehensive development of the human person in the process of satisfying his spiritual, cultural and domestic needs. Social infrastructure is an activity that tries to take into account the main tasks of public policy aimed at improving the living standards of people, their well-being and the duration of their life cycle, and at creating a healthy and active generation in any national economic sector. First of all, this includes the resolution of housing problems, the elimination of communal apartments, the satisfaction of the population’s needs for quality housing, which are constantly increasing, as well as the increase in the quality of development of society as a whole, that is, the creation of a cultural life activity of people. In addition, it is necessary to monitor the environmental conditions of life and work, increase the professionalism of workers of all professions, create social security for the entire population, satisfy the needs of society in the necessary goods and services, while increasing the solvency of the population.
Currently, self-financing of social services for the population is gaining large scale. This indicates that the demand for social services is not being adequately satisfied. This happens due to a reduction in the provision of preferential services for the population in budgetary institutions due to a decrease in government spending on the maintenance of facilities, which include social infrastructure.
Institutions and organizations that are self-supporting and receive independent income are provided with budget subsidies in order to reimburse the missing profit for the balance of expenses and income of the enterprise. This need for government subsidies is most often caused by the desire of organizations to maintain the existing demand for the services provided or by the established pricing policy of paid social and cultural services, such as theaters, cinema, etc.