The article is devoted to examining the place and importance of health safety in safety sciences based on the analysis of the literature of many fields and scientific disciplines. The problem of health security, although recurring since the times of the systemic change in public discourse and scientific research, which is still very relevant, is rarely examined from the perspective of its impact on state security, and if at least in the selected scope of creating strategic reserves in the context of system defense preparations. health. The broader context of the impact of health security on the security of the state is not properly exposed, areas of ignorance in this regard are identified. Research on the place of health security in science on safety was made as part of a wide literature review of items from the area of ​​many fields and disciplines: medicine, management, health sciences, safety sciences, etc. People searched for answers to the question about the research approach to health safety in safety sciences. The aim of the research presented in the article is an attempt to define the place of health security in security sciences and to highlight problems and research areas by presenting the context of strategic approaches and relations between health security and security sciences when we consider state security. Health safety contexts were analyzed after reviewing the reasons for the changes in perception of safety issues - also based on the literature. For health security research, when the context is national security, it is important to consider research in the areas of: citizens' health and the health of the nation, society (demographic context), health as an end in itself, as one of the dimensions of the national interest and a desired value, and health as strategic resource (factor of national strategic potential, economic growth, social potential, e.g. mobilization resources for the army, society's resilience). The article is a review.