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The Social Determinants of Health in Military Forces of Iran: A Qualitative Study

Providing effective health interventions and achieving equity in health need to apply the community-based approaches such as social determinants of health. In the military organizations, these determinants have received less attention from the military health researchers and policymakers. Therefore,...

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Autores principales: Bahadori, Mohammadkarim, Sanaeinasab, Hormoz, Ghanei, Mostafa, Mehrabi Tavana, Ali, Ravangard, Ramin, Karamali, Mazyar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4561324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26379716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/524341
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author Bahadori, Mohammadkarim
Sanaeinasab, Hormoz
Ghanei, Mostafa
Mehrabi Tavana, Ali
Ravangard, Ramin
Karamali, Mazyar
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Sanaeinasab, Hormoz
Ghanei, Mostafa
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description Providing effective health interventions and achieving equity in health need to apply the community-based approaches such as social determinants of health. In the military organizations, these determinants have received less attention from the military health researchers and policymakers. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and explain the social determinants affecting the health of military forces in Iran. This was a qualitative study which was conducted in 2014. The required data were collected through semistructured interviews and analyzed through Conventional Content Analysis. The studied sample consisted of 22 military health experts, policymakers, and senior managers selected using purposeful sampling method with maximum variation sampling. MAXQDA.2007 was used to analyze the collected data. After analyzing the collected data, two main contents, that is, “general social determinants of health” and “military social determinants of health,” with 22 themes and 90 subthemes were identified as the social determinants of military forces' health. Main themes were religious rule, spirituality promotion policies, international military factors, military command, and so forth. Given the role and importance of social factors determining the military forces' health, it can be recommended that the military organizations should pay more attention to these determinants in making policies and creating social, economic, and cultural structures for their forces.
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spelling pubmed-45613242015-09-14 The Social Determinants of Health in Military Forces of Iran: A Qualitative Study Bahadori, Mohammadkarim Sanaeinasab, Hormoz Ghanei, Mostafa Mehrabi Tavana, Ali Ravangard, Ramin Karamali, Mazyar J Environ Public Health Research Article Providing effective health interventions and achieving equity in health need to apply the community-based approaches such as social determinants of health. In the military organizations, these determinants have received less attention from the military health researchers and policymakers. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and explain the social determinants affecting the health of military forces in Iran. This was a qualitative study which was conducted in 2014. The required data were collected through semistructured interviews and analyzed through Conventional Content Analysis. The studied sample consisted of 22 military health experts, policymakers, and senior managers selected using purposeful sampling method with maximum variation sampling. MAXQDA.2007 was used to analyze the collected data. After analyzing the collected data, two main contents, that is, “general social determinants of health” and “military social determinants of health,” with 22 themes and 90 subthemes were identified as the social determinants of military forces' health. Main themes were religious rule, spirituality promotion policies, international military factors, military command, and so forth. Given the role and importance of social factors determining the military forces' health, it can be recommended that the military organizations should pay more attention to these determinants in making policies and creating social, economic, and cultural structures for their forces. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4561324/ /pubmed/26379716 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/524341 Text en Copyright © 2015 Mohammadkarim Bahadori et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sanaeinasab, Hormoz
Ghanei, Mostafa
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Ravangard, Ramin
Karamali, Mazyar
The Social Determinants of Health in Military Forces of Iran: A Qualitative Study
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26379716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/524341
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