The Impact of Sense of Security on Citizens' Social Health (Case study: 18 +Citizens in Urban Areas of Mashhad)

 Individuals’performance in society through behaviors and cohesive and adaptablepractices, acceptance, contribution, and flourishment enhances life quality andcreates social health. This indicator emanated from an essential variable called increasing the sense of societal security in society, leads to the improvement of life quality. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sense of security and social health, which at the level of micro-analysis emanating from interactions between people, leads toestablishment of sense of security based on comfort, tranquility and health through stressing some collective elements such as cohesion, adaptation, participation, acceptance and prosperity, in society. While using standardized questionnaire (social health) and researcher-made questionnaire (sense of security) and providing18+citizens in Mashhad urban areas,a quantitative method based on descriptive surveyand correlation was utilized and 760 samples were selected using sampling method proportionate with size. Descriptive results indicated that the variables of sense of security and social health are at average level. The results of regression showed that the values ​​of thecoefficients of components of the judicial-disciplinary security, economic, intellectual-political, emotional and psychological, life, communication, urban and neighborhood, identity, religious and moral, had the greatest impact on social health, respectively. The variable of sense of societal security approximately 43%,projects the variable of the social health; therefore, in order to improve sense of security and solvepeople’sproblems living in suburban areasand so on, it is possible to increase the social health of citizens by creating people-oriented police.