social support and social health

Aims: social health is the part of a person #39;s health that emerges in the community. we consider a person to have social health who can express his/her social activities and roles normally and feel connected to society and social norms. this study was aimed to determine a relationship between social support and social health among the people of yasouj, iran.instrument methods: this descriptive study was a crosssectional survey conducted on people of yasuj in 2016. four hundred people were selected using the cluster sampling method. a standardized questionnaire for the social support variables was used. the information was coded and entered into spss 22 software. kendall #39;s tauc test was used to analyze the relationships between variables.findings: there were significant relationships between social health and social, family, friends, and others #39; support (p<0.05).conclusion: social support (family, friends, and others) can help increase the social health of individuals, and it can reduce social harm.