Objective To know the people′s health status in Hangzhou,and to find out the factors influencing health status.To afford the basis to make the disease control policy.Methods To analyze people′s health status and risk factors comprehensively by mortality rate?YPLL rate(years of potential lost rate)?WYPLL rate(working years of potential lost rate)and VYPLL rate(valued years of potential lost rate).Results The mortality rate of the city was between 4 66‰ and 5 66‰,while it was between 6 57‰ and 7 14‰ in the country from 1995 to 2000.There were no much differences in every year.The YPLL rate descends both in the city and in the country.In the city,it was from 32 13‰ down to 24 09‰.In the country,it was from 50 06‰ down to 42 31‰.The reasons causing people death were injury poisoning?malignance and cardiovascular disease.According to the analysis on the VYPLL(valued years of potential lost),they were injury poisoning?congenial malformations?psychoses and diseases of the nervous system.Conclusion The people′s health status in Hangzhou had been improved.The main reasons causing people death were injury poisoning?malignance?cardiovascular disease?congenial malformations?psychoses and diseases of the nervous system.