Objective   To examine infectious disease-related health literacy and its influencing factors among adult migrant people in China and to provide references for developing health education programs for the population.

  Methods   From the dataset of National Dynamic Migrant Population Survey conducted in May 2016 across China, we extracted health literacy-related information for 8 554 migrant people aged 15 – 69 years and analyzed infectious disease-related health literacy and its influencing factors in the population.

  Results   Of all the migrants surveyed, 5 015 (58.63%) were assessed with infectious disease-related health literacy and 5 462 (63.85%) with scientific view of health. The self-reported proportions of ever receiving topic- specific health education were 64.12% for reproduction and contraception/prenatal and postnatal care, 51.13% for nutrition, 50.68% for sexually transmitted disease/AIDS prevention, 49.70% for smoking control, 35.00% for chronic disease prevention, 34.99% for occupational disease prevention, 29.48% for tuberculosis prevention, 21.48% for coping with haze and smog pollution, and 15.38% for prevention and treatment of mental disorders; for all the migrants, 78.76% reported acquiring health-related information via publicity materials, 78.24% via publicity columns, 42.60% via lectures, 27.41% via face-to-face consultations, 23.51% via electronic display screens, 17.56% via applications/short message service/WeChat, 16.07% via doctor′s lecture courses, and 9.59% via website consultations, respectively. Unconditional multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the migrant people with following characteristics were more likely to have infectious disease-related health literacy: with the education of junior high school and above, with the knowledge about health record but without their health records being established, with their health records being established, ever receiving health education on at least 5 topics, ever receiving health education via at least 4 dissemination ways, and with scientific view of health; while, the migrant people having bought homes in places of their household registration were less likely to have infectious disease-related health literacy.

  Conclusion   The infectious disease-related health literacy is at a relatively high level and mainly influenced by education level, place of housing purchase, health record establishment, contents and dissemination ways of health education, and whether with scientific view of health among adult migrant people in China.