This study is devoted to current health issues as an individual and public good to identify the dependence and correlation of the individual’s quality of life and health in the general concept of valuable goods of global civilizational development in increasing threats to the individual and humanity. The indicator of the well-being of society – life expectancy, which directly depends on the institutional factors of the state policy of health as a resource factor and value asset of society. Statistical data of the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation, characterizing mortality from various causes, and life expectancy in chronological dynamics in different age groups are given. The article reveals cause-and-effect relations of the necessity of constructive consolidation of power, business, and society to responsible attitude to own personal health while considering external and implemented environmental background factors in raising the economic status of health as public wealth. The authors are unanimous that the social significance and economic effect of health preservation as a basic value resource is the convergence of lifestyle, environmental conditions, family and upbringing, harmful factors of a person’s harmful lifestyle (bad habits).