The Role of Health in Security and Sustainable National Development-Section 4: Social Health and Its Relation to Sustainable National Security

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.