The concepts "healthy lifestyle", "mental health of the personality", "physical health of the personality", "social health of the personality" are considered. Mental health is defined by wellbeing of mentality, is caused by a row biological and socio-economic factors and is understood as a condition of wellbeing in which the person realizes the abilities, can resist to vital stresses, it is productive to work for the benefit of society. Physical health is considered as a condition of an organism at which all his internals normally function from the point of view of physiology. Social health is caused by the harmonious relations of the personality in society.The programs of formation of culture of a healthy lifestyle used in Russia, South Korea, Germany, England, France are analysed; the theoretical analysis of modern Russian and international researches in the field of a healthy lifestyle is made: studying of harmful effects of excessive use of information technologies on health of the person, prevention of early marriage and formation of sexual culture of the personality; creation and introduction in practice of new models of cultural development of healthy life for the population of megalopolises; protection of student’s youth against various threats of social and medical character, harmful phenomena (drug addiction, toxicomania, alcoholism, HIV, AIDS); increase in spiritual and medi- cal literacy of the population; respect for sanitary and hygienic norms, prevention of ecological threats, revival of cultural wealth in society, etc.It is established that in the context of prevention of mental and somatic diseases, counteraction to the deviating, addictive behavior of teenagers and youth, prevention of further criminalization of society the problem of maintaining health, maintenance of a healthy lifestyle on modern a stage of development of society has paramount value.