Document Type : Research Paper
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university of tehran
Abstract
The importance of the issue of urban health has made the concept of the urban heart in more than 40 countries of the world to be centered on the issue of eliminating environmental inequalities. Therefore, for many governments, increasing awareness of environmental effects on human health has become one of the main functions of governments in relation to citizens and explaining new approaches in studies and urban planning. This study, based on the importance of planning and environmental quality and urban health, has investigated this issue in the city of Qom. The current research, which is a type of library and field studies, with a descriptive-analytical and survey method, and using a wide environmental survey by the executive team (photographing, sampling, interviewing and preparing informal reports with the citizens of each region, observations field and distribution of questionnaires), has been completed and its results analyzed using Spss16, ArcGIS software show that under the influence of issues, problems, deficiencies and weak knowledge and planning required in The area of upgrading and improving the current environmental, physical and visual quality indicators of the city of Qom, different dimensions of urban health (social, mental and physical health), the citizens of Qom receive direct and indirect effects in different degrees, among which, The psychological dimension of the citizens of Qom city should be prioritized for investigation and planning for the future. Comparison of the average of urban health sub-indexes (mental, physical, social) shows that the highest average (2.57) belongs to the social health sub-index and the lowest average (2.30) belongs to the mental health sub-index. In general, according to the obtained averages, none of the dimensions of health in Qom city have a good condition because the average of all sub-indices is much lower than the average (3).
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