Health is primarily the subject of medicine, nevertheless it is also studied by other disciplines including inter alia social sciences. As a reason, health is the most important phenomenon of both individual and social life. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to investigate and assess the healthrelated content in social studies textbooks. In line with the objective of the study, social studies textbooks published by Ministry of National Education of Republic of Turkey to be taught in the 4th grade of elementary schools and in the 5th, 6th and 7th grades of the middle schools as well as the respective social studies curricula used in the 2019-2020 academic year were used as the data source. Documentary and descriptive analyses were used in the analysis of the research data. Health-related content and themes in the textbooks were determined, analyzed according to learning fields (theme) and arranged in tables. In conclusion, it was determined that health-related content is included in the teaching materials of all four grade levels analyzed within the scope of this study. It was also determined however that the health-related content was not evenly distributed according to learning fields and grade levels, and that there was less health-related content in teaching materials of 7th grade compared to other grade levels. These findings indicate that it is necessary to include more health-related content in social studies courses, taking into consideration that social studies course aim to prepare the students for social life and given the health problems experienced today and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic process