As Analysis of Effective Environmental Factors on Urban Life Health in Iranian Metropolis Case Study: Metropolis of Qom

Abstract

City, as the habitat and settlement area of of the urban man, reqires the meeting of the standards that at oneglance can be called "quality and health standards". Biological health is, in fact, a multi-dimensional andcomplex concept that has been emphasized by thinkers of urban and social sciences. The present study, with theknowledge of the importance of this issue, has examined the issue of urban ecological health in terms ofenvironmental studies. This research, which is an applied and its research method is based on field anddescriptive-analytic studies, has focused on environmental variables and ecosystem health. According to theCochran model, 322 questionnaires were distributed among household heads (level of analysis) of eightmetropolitan areas of Qom (study area) Finally, for analyzing and studing the data, using SPSS and ArcGISsoftware and the Topsis model as one of the most useful methods for decision making, the following questionswere discussed. The results of this study to answer the questions show that the eight studied areas, influenced bysocioeconomic, cultural and interactions with urban management, have a spatial division of the dimension ofenvironmental quality and ecosystem health. As regions 4, 3, 1 and 7, according to the most favorableconditions, social, cultural and economic indicators of the household have better quality and environmentalquality than areas 8, 5, 6 and 2. So that the viewpoint of residents of regions 1, 4, 3 and 7 on the use of healthindicators indicates their favorable situation compared to others. Finally, in response to research questions, it wasdetermined that the reasons for the differences between different regions in terms of urban health are theexistence of differences in social, economic and cultural indicators of the household and its impact onenvironmental quality and interaction with urban management.

Keywords

• urban environmental health
• urban environment
• environmental health indicators
• urban environmental indicators
• metropolis of qom