Assessing and explaining the social health needs of citizens (case study: District 3 of Tehran Municipality)

Abbas Gholtash ¹ ( Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht,, Iran. )

Submited date : 2024-01-02 Accepted date : 2024-10-31

Keywords: Need, Social Health, Social Health Needs, Citizens.,

Abstract :

Increasing the social welfare and health of citizens has been one of the most important goals of social policy makers. This research was conducted with the aim of identifying and explaining the social health needs of citizens in Deh Vanak . The approach of mixed research was explanatory in which the Mixed Method research was used. Materials and Methods: In the quantitative part, a descriptive survey method was used to examine and explain the needs from the residents' and elites' point of view, and in the qualitative part, a phenomenological method was used to depict the lived experiences of the elites and residents of the neighborhood. In the quantitative part of the statistical population of this research, there were residents of Deh Vanak neighborhood, which was selected by available sampling method, 460 people. In the qualitative part, the participants in the research were elites and cultural experts who were selected by a targeted method in the number needed to collect information. 5 people were selected based on the principle of theoretical saturation and information was collected using semi-structured interviews. In order to collect data, in the quantitative part, the needs assessment questionnaire of Soleimani and colleagues (2016) was used. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics indicators such as mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics test of one-sample t-test were used in the quantitative section. In the qualitative part of the interviews, in order to complete and explain the quantitative findings, the necessary components were extracted from them. Results: The findings showed that all the components of the physical and programmatic needs of social health were confirmed. The inferences of the interviewees from the need components were in complete agreement with the confirmed needs of the quantitative department, and the quantitative and qualitative findings were in line. Conclusion: The management of urban neighborhoods requires a more accurate understanding of the needs of citizens in order to make optimal decisions. Without understanding the needs of social health, the management of social health programs in the city neighborhoods, including De Vanak neighborhood, leads to the sterility or nullification of social health programs