MEASURING OF REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN SOCIAL SPHERE

The European Union under the objective Cohesion emphasizes balanced development that reduces disparities between the regions. Despite of the European Union efforts to reduce disparities continuously between regions, there are still significant differences between them not only between regions from all European Union but also between regions form individual countries. This paper is devoted to the issue of above mentioned regional disparities. Most of the researches are devoted to the economic or socio-economic sphere. This it is the reason why this paper is devoted only into the social sphere. For the measuring there were used point method and five integrated indicators - living standards, health condition, social facilities, social pathology and unemployment. The measuring was done in four regions in the Czech Republic - the Hradec Kralove and the Plzen Region (representatives of prosperous regions), and the Usti and the Moravian-Silesian Region (representatives of structurally affected regions). The measuring of regional disparities in social sphere confirmed individual status of chosen regions.