Investigating the effects of alienation and social networks on women's social health in 22 districts of Tehran

One of the dimensions affecting the social health of individuals is social alienation and social isolation. Social alienation plays an important role in the level of social health of people in society and can affect the quality of life of women. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to investigate the role of social alienation in the social health of women in 22 districts of Tehran. The theoretical framework is the use of Keys's theory of social health and Durkheim's theory of social alienation. The research method was survey and was done with a questionnaire. The statistical population is women over 18 years old in Tehran. According to Cochran's formula, the sample size was 384 people and multi-stage cluster sampling method was used.A researcher-made questionnaire was used which has formal validity and reliability. The results showed that the average social health among the women of Tehran was equal to 2.87, which is slightly lower than average. Among the components of social health, the dimension of social adaptation with 3.10 had the highest and the dimension of social participation with 2.66 had the lowest average. There is a negative and inverse relationship between social alienation and social health (-0.523). If the rate of social alienation among citizens increases, the rate of social health decreases.The dimension is social prosperity (-0.455) .The result is that in order to increase social health among the citizens of Tehran, we need social alienation and its dimensions such as feeling powerless,