The article is devoted to determining the characteristics of the components of a person’s value attitude in the structure of health. The analysis of the emotional component of the students’ value attitude to their health is carried out. As a diagnostic tool, the following were used: R.A. Berezovskaya’s questionnaire “Attitude to health”, the test “Index of attitude to health” S. D. Deryabo, V. A. Yasvina. It was revealed that students of different forms of education have different indicators of the emotional component of the value attitude to their health.