Abstract: Objective To examine the relationship between social support and health education services utilization among urban elderly. Methods A total of 1 530 old people aged 65 and over were selected in Dongcheng District, Beijing by two-stage random sampling method, A questionnaire survey was conducted and the relationship between their social support and health education services utilization was explored by the aid of The behavioral model of health services use(BMHSU). Results A total of 61.9% of the subjects took up the health education services. The median, lower and upper quartile of social support scale(SSRS) score were 35.00 and 31.00 to 40.00. Higher social support was related to higher health education services utilization rate among old people (χ² Trend Test Z=-6.74, P<0.001). The ordinal Logistic model indicated that higher social support was a positive factor in terms of utilizing health education services by the elderly. Adjusted for other factors in BMHSU, compared to those whose social support score was in the lowest quartile, the ORs of often utilizing health education services for the other three groups of old people (from lower scores to higher scores) were 1.65(P=0.001), 1.99(P<0.001), 2.72(P<0.001), respectively. After changing social support for its three dimensions, a second ordinal Logistic model indicated that both objective support and use of social support were positively related to often health education services utilization among the elderly. Conclusions Social support has a significant effect on health education services utilization among urban elderly and thus intervention in social support especially in objective support and use of social support has great potential to improve the utilization rate.