خلاصة:
In the past two or three decades, the concept of lifestyle in general and health-oriented
lifestyle in particular have received the attention of many Social intellectuals, health
researchers and medical sociologists. At a closer look, health-oriented lifestyle as a
Multifactorial, multi-dimensional and multi-indication phenomenon, is associated with the
collective patterns of behavior that deal with issues threatening the health of people, in
order to guarantee the health of people. A close look at the literature shows that some
researchers seek to explain health behavior patterns, while others seek to explain the factors
such as individual choices. These choices are not made in a social, political, or cultural
vacuums, and a variety of underlying determinants such as gender, social class and marital
status affect them. By adopting a similar approach and relying on medical sociology
background, the present article seeks to survey the health-oriented lifestyle as well as
capital and underlying determinants among over 15 year old citizens in the city of Shiraz.
To this end, 384 citizens were selected through classified random sampling and the required
data were collected through appropriate questionnaire techniques. The findings showed that
health-oriented lifestyle of citizens vary depending on their sex, age and marital status and
that there is a significant correlation between different forms of human capital (social,
economic and cultural) and health-oriented lifestyle.