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10.30491/JCM.2021.150333 Journal of Combat Medicine
Narrative Review 2021 | 4(1) | 5

The Role of Health in Security

and Sustainable National Development
Section 4: Social Health and Its Relation
to Sustainable National Security

Seyyed Yahya Safavi , Mohammad Ali Mohageghi 2
1 ⃰
1 Professor in Political Geography, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor, Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Received: 22 February 2021 Accepted: 17 April 2021

Abstract

Background and Aim: Social health is one of the dimensions of health. One of the intrinsic duties of the health
system is to provide the necessary basis for improving the quality of life of individuals and developing social
health indexes. This issue causes social security feeling that is necessary for sustainable national security. The aim
of the current study is to explain the relationship between social health and sustainable national security.
Methods: A library study was performed by reviewing scientific documents using the study keywords.
Results: «Lack of poverty»; «lack of violence»; «controlled population growth»; «judicial justice (equality before
the law)»; «human rights»; «free public education»; «public access to health services»; «security»; «freedom of
opinion»; «feeling satisfied with life»; «insurance coverage»; «equitable distribution of income»; «employment
and lack of unemployment»; «ethnic-racial and regional nondiscrimination»; «democracy» and «government
legitimacy and democratic oversight of government» are components of social health.
Conclusion: The relation between social health with national security and social security is similar to the relation
between blood circulation in the heart. Social health is related to social security and, consequently, national
security and its sustainability. Sustainable security is culturally centered social security. This concept's definitive
requirement is social security, which is rooted in social health.

Keywords: Security, Social Security, National Security, Health, Social Health.

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* Corresponding Author: Seyyed Yahya Safavi
Address: Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran.
E-mail: [email protected]

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