The Role of Health in National Security and Sustainable Development-Section 5: Spiritual Health and Its Relationship with Sustainable National Security

Document Type : Narrative Review

Authors
Seyyed Yahya Safavi 1
Mohammad Ali Mohagheghi 2
1 Professor in Political Geography, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor, Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
10.30491/jcm.2021.161041
Abstract
Background and Aim: Spiritual security is under sustainable national security. There is a close relationship between comprehensive health, including the spiritual dimension, and national security. Spiritual aspects of Health and Security have been investigated in this study.
Methods: Library research method used in this study. The data analysis was qualitative and explanatory (causal), and interpretive.
Results: Spiritual security and spiritual health, in the “Islamic-Iranian model of progress”, are necessary and obligatory for each other. Spiritual health, the most important dimension of comprehensive health, is effective in, and necessary for, national security and sustainable development of the society, too.
Conclusion: Spiritual aspects of “Health” and “Security”, are two divine blessings, precious and irreplaceable havens, in human societies. Belief in God, strengthening the attributes of faith, and righteous actions, are the main origin of security actions and also the main mechanism for obtaining and promoting spiritual health.
Keywords
Security
Spiritual Security
National Security
Health
Spiritual Health
Spirituality

  • Receive Date 07 July 2021
  • Revise Date 16 October 2021
  • Accept Date 01 November 2021