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The Impact of Physical Health on Social Health. Case Study of Two Healthy and (Cardiovascular) Patient Groups in Rasht City of Iran

Rouhollah Nosrati and Milad Fouladi

Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 28, Issue 1, March 2020

Keywords: Health, medical sociology, social health

Published on: 19 March 2020

The present article investigates the impact of physical health on social health. The purpose of the study was to show how physical health as a biological matter affected the feeling of social health and whether physical disease was an obstacle to the sense of social health. The presumption was that social health was a structural matter that exceeded physical and bodily health in importance and its fulfillment was not dependent on the latter. The authors used Keyes theory of social health to examine the hypothesis. The sample comprised two convenience groups, one healthy and the other ill. The findings of the study showed that the social health of the sample was moderately low. The results on five social health components demonstrated that social actualisation and social acceptance were moderately high, while the descriptive statistics of other three (social coherence, social integration, social contribution) indicated that the three were low in the sample. The comparison of five indicators between the two groups demonstrated that healthy individuals maintained better a “feeling of actualisation and social acceptance” while the ill enjoyed higher degrees of “social coherence, social integration, and social contribution”.

ISSN 0128-7702

e-ISSN 2231-8534

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JSSH(S)-0894-20

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