Objective  To examine the status quo and influencing factors of health education among ethnic minority migrant population in China and to provide references for promoting the equalization of basic public health services in the population.

  Methods  Relevant data on 14 226 ethnic minority migrant people aged ≥ 15 years were from the National Dynamic Surveillance on Health and Family Planning of Migrant Population carried out during May – August 2017. SPSS 25.0 statistical software was used to analyze the status quo and influencing factors of health education in the population.

  Results  Of all the people surveyed, 75.4% (10 724) had received health education on various topics; the proportions of the people ever receiving the education on various health issues were 53.9% for reproductive health and contraception, 53.2% for tobacco control, 53.1% for maternal and child health care and eugenics, 47.9% for the prevention and control of sexual transmitted disease/human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (STD/HIV/AIDS), 43.3% for self-help in a public emergency, 41.6% for chronic disease prevention and control, 40.4% for tuberculosis prevention and control, 37.9% for mental health, and 34.9% for occupational disease prevention, respectively. The ways of acquiring related information reported by the people ever receiving health education were as following: publicity materials such as paper, film and television (reported by 84.3% of the people), bulletin board/public electronic display screens (71.9%), health knowledge lecture (47.0%), public health consultation (46.2%), community-delivered short massage /WeChat/website (38.2%) and personalized face-to-face consultation (32.4%). Unconditioned multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that the people with following characteristics were more likely to have health education: being Zhuang or Uygur ethnic, with the education of junior high school and above, married, with a stable employment, employed by a collective/state-run/joint venture enterprise, immigrating to central or western regions, having medical insurance, with established health records in local region, and with a self-rated good or generally good health; while the people of ≥ 45 years were less likely to receive health education.

  Conclusion  The health education among ethnic minority migrant population is at a low level and less comprehensive. Main impact factors for acceptance of health education in ethnic minority migrant population include age, nationality, education level, marital status, employment status, nature of employer, region of immigration, medical insurance, establishment of health record in local residence, and self-rated health.