Objective To investigate the status and main influencing factors of health education among migrant population in China and to provide evidences for promoting health literacy of migrant population.
Methods From the dataset of China's National Migrant Population Dynamic Survey conducted in May 2017, we extracted the information on 154 586 migrants aged 15 years or older and living in a resettlement destination for more than 6 months. Statistical analysis on the collected data was performed using SPSS 20.0 software.
Results Among the migrants studied, 112 989 (73.1%) reported ever receiving health education during past one year. The number (percentage) of the migrants reporting ever received high, moderate, and low informative health education were 84 236 (54.5%), 26 486 (17.1%), and 43 864 (28.4%), respectively. The topics of health education ever received by the migrants included smoking control (reported by 51.5% of the migrants), maternal and child health/eugenics (51.2%), reproductive health and contraception (50.5%), self-rescue in public emergency (42.3%), prevention of sexually transmitted disease/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (39.7%), chronic disease prevention (37.4%), mental health (35.8%), tuberculosis prevention (33.7%), and occupational disease prevention (33.4%). The health education media reported by the migrants involved promotional materials such as paper and film (listed by 85.6% of the migrants), billboards/electronic display (74.8%), public health consultation (45.3%), health lecture (44.6%), community messaging/WeChat/networks (40.2%), and personal face-to-face consultation (30.1%). The results of multivariate ordinal logistic regression revealed that the migrants with following characteristics were more likely to have high informative health education: aged 30 – 49 years, with the education of junior high school and above, married, with an average monthly family income of 3 000 – 11 999 RMB, living in current resettlement destination for 2 – 5 years, and immigrating to regions in central or western China; while, the migrants aged 50 years and above, with a rural registered residence, having an occupation other than employer, employee or self-employed, having a cross province migration, and immigrating to regions in northeastern China were more likely to have low informative health education.
Conclusion The health education is generally at a low level and mainly influenced by age, education, marital status, type of registered residence, employment, monthly family income, years of current migration, and resettlement region among migrant population in China.
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