The Impact of Governance Quality on Improving Social Health Indicators

In addition to the conceptual appeal of "social health", one of the reasons for the success of this concept is that it offers a summary of social conditions. This conclusion can be a good indicator and an analytical tool for researchers in different sciences. Applied sociologists, social pathologists, and development planners have done a great deal of research on social health dimensions and factors affecting it. This research aims to scientifically study the impact of quality of governance on promoting social health indicators in the society.

This descriptive survey based on data collection is a correlational one in terms of data analysis. The statistical population of this study consisted of 110 senior and middle managers in the field of governance and health, scientific experts, managers, professors and faculty members of universities as the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Health, Medical Education and Research Institutions. The multi-stage cluster sampling method.

The findings of this study showed that 57.3% of social health changes are predicted by the governance and the rest of the changes depend on other factors and variables that were not included in the model. It was also found that the endogenous construct of social health (0.207) was positive and at an appropriate level, indicating the good predictive power of the model with respect to this variable.

After reviewing the measurement models, it became clear that by increasing one standard deviation in governance, social health would increase by 0.757 standard deviation. In fact, good governance will improve social health.