en <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Aims: </strong>Health literacy is skills and abilities in the acquisition and access of medical and health information, understanding such information, processing and interpretation of the information, and decision-making and use of updated information. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between health literacy and lifestyle in the families of veterans and families of non-veterans and assess and compare their lifestyles.<br> <strong>Instrument & Methods:</strong> 1770 members of the families of veterans and non-veterans from five provinces in Iran were selected through a systematic sampling method to participate in a descriptive cross-sectional study in 2019. Lifestyle Questionnaire and All Aspects of Health Literacy Scale were used to collect the necessary data. Pearson Correlation and t-test statistics were run using SPSS 24 for the analysis of the data.<br> <strong>Findings:</strong> There was a positive and significant correlation between veterans&#39; health literacy and the lifestyle of veterans and non-veterans families (veterans: r=0.330, p<0.001; non-veterans: r=0.321, p<0.001). There was no significant difference between the lifestyle mean scores for men and women in the two groups of veterans and non-veterans (p>0.05).<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> There is a correlation between health literacy and the lifestyle in veterans- and non-veterans families, while there is no difference between the lifestyles in the two groups.<br> &nbsp;</div> LifeStyle,Veteran,Non-Veteran,Iran, 103 108 http://ijwph.daneshafarand.org/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1782-1&slc_lang=en&sid=3 S.A. Afshani afshanialireza@yazd.ac.ir 1003194753284600378068 1003194753284600378068 Yes Department of Cooperative and Social Welfare, Faculty of Social science, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran H. Shiri-Mohammadabad 1003194753284600378066 1003194753284600378066 No Department of Cooperative and Social Welfare, Faculty of Social science, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran S.M. Hosseini-Motlagh 1003194753284600378067 1003194753284600378067 No Janbazan Medical and Engineering Research Center, Tehran, Iran