Background & Aims: Family is the resource of psychological, physical, sexual and emotional needs of its members. This research tries to study and describe Iranian family in the concept of health and illustrate its basics and damages in. Matherial & Methods: This research is a qualitative and phenomenological research. The data are gathered through deep interviews, research sample is a group involved 25 experts. Sampling was purposive and voluntarily. Results: Analyzing the data showed that the experts of different field believe in a transitioned family so the Iranian family is a family that is going toward modern society. But this family is not standing firmly on the range of modernity and traditions so that in some aspects it is closer to the traditional family and in some others it acts like a modern family. In line with a global pattern, Urbanization, nuclear family, families with only one child, the growing process of cohabitants which is not legal and religiously accepted, single-parent families, a greater presence of women in society, and decreasing the power of the man in family and increasing role of children can be consider as signs of modernity in Iranian families. Conclusion: This results can be used to develop prevention programs and the empowerment of Iranian families. In the long term, the implementation of programs aimed at informing families about the harmfulness of paying too much attention to the child, proper parent training, communication skills and problem solving training of family members can have a positive effect on the health and well-being of Iranian families.

Keywords: Family, Iranian healthy family, Risk factors, Experts

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