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This assignment has two parts.
The Surgeon General’s Family History Initiative encourages all American families to learn more about their family history. Knowing your family health history is a powerful guide to understanding risk for disease. It is important to keep in mind that a family history of a particular illness may increase risk of other family members developing that illness, but it almost never guarantees that other family members will develop the illness.
To get the most accurate health history information, it is important to talk directly with your relatives. Knowing your health information can help improve prevention and screening of diseases for you and all your family members.
Part 1:
For the first part of this assignment you will ask your relatives about any health conditions they have had or know for certain have developed in your immediate family—including history of chronic illnesses, such as heart disease; pregnancy complications, such as miscarriage; and any developmental disabilities.
Get as much specific information as possible. It is most useful if you can list the formal name of any medical condition that has affected you or your relatives. You can get help finding information about health conditions that have affected you and your family members—living or deceased—by asking relatives or health care professionals for information or by getting copies of medical records.
Complete a family health history at https://phgkb.cdc.gov/FHH/html/index.html
No form can reflect every version of the American family, so use this chart as a starting point and adapt it to your family’s needs.
- First, complete the personal information, including the number of relatives you have in each category and whether you have any of the six conditions listed.
- Then complete the family information, including any health conditions your family members have, their age at diagnosis, and, if they are deceased, the age at which they died. Because some conditions are more common in people with certain ethnic ancestries, you may also want to record your relatives’ ancestry or country of origin under their names.
You must save your Family History report from the website (click save to image) and download it to submit it with your assignment.
Part 2:
After completing your family health history, please answer the following questions, in 250-500 words for each question.
- Analyze why it is important for individuals to be aware of their family health history.
- When you completed your family health history, what were you already aware of? What was the most surprising thing you discovered?
- Now that you have completed your family health history, how will you use it to your advantage?
- Describe how, as a future professional in the health field, you can work with individuals to understand the importance of creating a family health history.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
