title: Determining dimensions of iranians' individual social health: a qualitative approach.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Social health is important to be assessed as a dimension of health. The aim of study was to determine domains and sub-domains of individual social health of Iranians.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was carried out with a qualitative approach, using thematic content analysis. Twenty five experts participated in interviews, using individual semi-structured interviews between November 2010 and June 2011.This data supported with strong search.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two main areas extracted from these interviews including social support and social function. The social support domain contained seventeen sub-areas, including social support at the time of disease; disability; daily life issues, etc. And the social function as second domain contained twelve sub-areas, including: financial aids to others; emotionally aids to others; participating in social groups, etc.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We developed a conceptual framework for social health in the individual level in Iranian population. It makes preparations for providing a valid and reliable measurement scale for social health in next studies and evidence-based policy-making.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health and Social Medicine, Medical School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abachizadeh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Omidnia
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Memaryan
authors.forename: Aa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nasehi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rasouli
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tayefi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nikfarjam
keywords: Dimensions; Iindividual; Iran; Qualitative; Social health