Investigate the quality of life in small cities, with an emphasis on the personal and social health dimension (case study: Nourcity, Mazandran Province)

Extended abstract1-IntroductionUrbanization is as one of the most important affected factors on personal and social health of citizens.So that, human health influenced by social - economic and their environment situation largely and depended on the plans and purposes which the city considered for them and so improving the urban quality of life, is depended on promote the health. Rapid urbanization and paying attention to physical concepts and disregarding the social goals in the urban development plans, cities has encountered with undesirable cycle of social- economic environmental imbalances and in total, declining the quality of life. Now, planners and urban decision-makers have decided to pay attention to and focus on the issue of urban quality of life, find a solution to make of human free from these problems. Despite the importance of quality of life in the urban development process, has not been much attention to this important issue, due to rapid urbanization and the need to urban development especially from the 80 decade and also due to poor vision in the right direction and control of urban development in Nour of Mazandaran and face to the problems so weaknesses in the quality and quantity of services, public and welfare spaces as municipal standards, lack of attention to environmental issues and the imbalance between social welfare and economic efficiency (in favor of economic efficiency) and ... that in total, the urban quality of life has encountered with difficult. 2- MethodologyThe method of this study is, descriptive – analytic whit goal of do an investigation on the quality of life in Nour city as a small city, with an emphasis on the personal and social health dimension. Thus, quality of environmental, quality of functional environmental and quality of community components, have been studied. The required data have been collected through field visits and studies and compeleting a questionnaire with a sample size of 320 households from the entire city's neighborhoods by using the quota random wayand have been analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Mann Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman and unilateral Chi square Tests.3– Discussion The findings of research have indicated, the quality of environmental components with mean 2/87 and Standard deviation 0/53, is in the below of moderate condition in studied city. In related to this component, 10 indicators have been studied. Most weakness in associated with this component,is related to the cleaning of city rivers with mean 2/03, and the best situation is related to the climatic conditions