Abstract
With social capital taking the center stage among sociologists during 1990s, social health and medicine turned their attention increasingly to links between health and social factors such as inequality, public trust, and national solidarity. The wave gave way to significant body of research which evolved around social health. In today’s city life, advantages of living in an urban center and threats to individuals’ health emanating from lifestyle have been equally affected health. The present paper is an applied case study which provides a descriptive analysis of social health of Qom metropolitan area drawing upon social capital components. Results indicated that in 8 districts, there is a type of spatial natural divisions in terms of immigrant and native population which gives different weights to their social capital. Their social capital is directly affected by social and cultural status. Districts 4, 3, 1, and 7 with highest native population enjoy better figures in terms of social capital indices compared to districts 5, 6, 2, and 8 with the majority of population being immigrants from around the country and other countries.
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