ESSENCE OF SOCIAL DEFENSE HIS INTERPRETATION AND CONTENT

This article is devoted to the analysis of theoretical aspects of forming of social defense. Modern realities of the state development need considerable rethinking of essence of population social security, and accordingly raising of new tasks which this system is called to decide, and mechanisms of realization of social defense, which must be adequate to the markets conditions. Essence, maintenance, structure, functions and levels of social defense, are analyzed in the article.