The National Health Assembly, a way to increase community participation in health decision making

ealth is the result of dynamic and complicated relationships and deals with non-linear and non-predictable procedures. Nowadays, the health section cannot solely solve its challenges. Changing the load of diseases toward non-communicable diseases all over the world including developing countries, and the fact that development of such diseases has complicated mechanisms and is dependent on several factors made us consider the importance of doing some health based interferences in other sections more than before (۱,۲). In a general view, human health depends on the improvement of situations in which an individual is born, grows up, works, and pursues his life. These situations are themselves part of the goals of sustainable development and are called social determinants of health, like healthy food and food security, suitable house, road safety, increasing physical activity and exercises, reducing air pollution, having safe cars, and reducing accidents (۳). Therefore, it can be argued that to reach the goals of sustainable development, one has to pass through making healthier humans and improving human’s health indicators.