Family is the basic unit of society and a crucial environment for the development of people, significantly impacting people's physical and mental health. Conducting reviews on the concept and measurement tools of family health is an important task in building the family health service system, continuously improving family health levels, and supporting the role of family health in promoting high-quality development of population. This paper comprehensively reviews the concept of family health, interprets the difference and relationship between family health and related concepts such as a healthy family, and analyzes the development of family health measurement tools in stages. Family health refers to the ability of family to maintain and promote the health of its members. Its concept extended from internal to external factors, and from the whole to individual factors. Family health is a crucial pathway to building healthy families, and healthy family is an indicator suggesting family health has reached a certain level. Before 2020, measurement tools of family health were often applicable to specific population groups or used to measure certain dimensions of family health. Since 2020, these tools have developed further in terms of applicable population groups and dimensions, resulting in two types of family health scales suitable for various population groups and encompassing multiple dimensions. Currently, the most widely used family health scales among the Chinese population include four dimensions: health processes, healthy lifestyle, health resources, and social support. This scale has been employed in surveys of Psychology and Behavior Investigation of Chinese Residents. Although the scale has high reliability and validity, they are adapted from the scale developed by foreign scholars. There is a need to further consider relevant policies, marriage and childbirth concepts, family traditions, and other factors related to China's national conditions and Chinese cultural elements to develop family health scales that better reflect the characteristics of the Chinese population.