Parasitic diseases represent a Public Health problem, due to the high rate of morbidity and
mortality in populations in underdeveloped countries and the fact that they can cause
developmental and learning disorders in school-age children. In the teaching of Sciences, the
textbook (DL) is often the only resource present in the teaching-learning process, so that, and
thus, constant studies are needed to verify the quality of its service to education. In this
context, the general objective of this study is to analyze the human health content about
parasitic diseases, in Biology textbooks, used between the years 2009 to 2020, in the city of
Araguaína-TO. To achieve this objective, a qualitative study was carried out, more precisely,
a documental analysis of the selected textbooks was carried out, using as a reference the
methodology of content analysis, proposed by Bardin (2009). The results obtained show that
the number of pages dedicated to parasitic diseases has decreased over the years,
compromising and omitting relevant information and concepts that can help prevent these
diseases. A, in addition, the conceptual errors found also contribute to the generation of wrong
information about the parasitosis.
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