public health
Stroke, Colon Cancer, Diabetes
1. What diseases or medical conditions do your family members have?
2. Does anyone in your family have one of the common chronic illnesses listed above? Has anyone in your family died from one of the common chronic illnesses listed above?
3. List and discuss the illness or conditions that people in your family has died from. Your answer should be detailed.
Part IA: Family Interview: Research your family medical history. Go back as far as your maternal and paternal grandparents. Make sure that you include aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, sisters, parents and children. Interview family members and ask the following questions:
Common Chronic Illnesses: Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke, Colon Cancer, Diabetes
1. What diseases or medical conditions do your family members have?
2. Does anyone in your family have one of the common chronic illnesses listed above? Has anyone in your family died from one of the common chronic illnesses listed above?
3. List and discuss the illness or conditions that people in your family has died from. Your answer should be detailed.
4. What effect did these diseases or conditions have on your family member and family? Your answer should be detailed.
5. What lessons did each family member learn about maintaining health? Ask each family member that you interview this question so that you can compile a list of responses to include in your reflection paper. Their answers can include lessons about healthy eating habits, taking herbal medications, exercise habits, prayer, meditation etc. Write down all of the information that you learn.
Note: Please submit the answers to these questions in a Word document.
Part IB: Create a Family Health Portrait: After interviewing your family members and gathering the necessary information, create a family health portrait. The link to the electronic Family Health Portrait document is located in Blackboard.
Family Health Portrait Document: Please download this document in Blackboard. This document is located in the “Family Health History Project” folder.
Note: In order to get full credit for this assignment, please make sure that you complete and submit this document.
Family Portrait Document Submission: You can scan and upload this document in the submission folder below or you can take pictures of the completed documented with your smart phones and submit the pictures. If you choose to take pictures of the completed document, please make sure that it is clear picture.
Part II – Family Health History Project- Reflection Paper
Your reflection paper should be 2-3 pages long.
The total amount of points you can earn for this paper is 100 points.
APA Style Requirement: Your paper should be written in APA style. APA style includes a typed paper that is double spaced, on standardized paper (8.5 x 11) with 1” margins on all sides and written in 12 point Times New Roman Font. Details about citing various sources will be given in detail separately.
Reference:
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
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Note: You are not required to use information from outside sources for this project. However, you are required to cite any information that you retrieve from other sources in APA style. For example, if you chose to define a medical condition, please make sure that you cite the source in the body of your paper and in the reference list. Failure to cite any information that you get from other sources is plagiarism.
Introduction: (30 Points)
In the introduction of your paper, briefly discuss your family background. Your introduction should include the following:
1. Grandparents: Where are your mother’s parents from? Where are your father’s parents from? What was their childhood like?
1. Parents: Where is your mom from? Where is your father from? What was their childhood like?
1. What did your grandparents and parents learn about maintaining health?
1. How many aunts and uncles do you have on each side of the family (include your mom’s siblings and your dad’s siblings).
The body of your paper should provide detailed information about your family’s medical history.
The body of your paper should include the following:
1. Current Family Medical Conditions: What medical illnesses or conditions do your family members have? Discuss the diseases and conditions that you were aware of prior to this project. Discuss the diseases and conditions that you learned about during your family interview.
1. Disease Burden Impact: How has the disease or condition impacted the life of your individual family member(s)? How has the disease or condition impacted your family? If there are hereditary health issues, how can these health issues impact your life? Has anyone died from any of the diseases or conditions?
1. Best Practices- Disease Prevention: What steps can you take to prevent developing this illness? Discuss at least 3 healthy lifestyle habits or behaviors.
Conclusion:
The conclusion of your paper should include the following:
1. Summarize your findings.
1. What did you learn after completing this project?
Name Section——- Date———
(/ WELLNESS WORKSHEET 8
~Create a Family Health Portrait
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.
However, keep in mind that a family history of a particular illness may increase risk, 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. Explain
to them that their health information can help improve prevention and screening of diseases for all family
members.
Start by asking your relatives about any health conditions they have had-including history of chronic ill-
nesses, such as heart disease; pregnancy complications, such as miscarriage; and any developmental disabili-
ties. (You may want to refer to Wellness Worksheet 45 for a list of conditions and diseases.) 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. If you are planning to have children, you and your
partner should each create a family health portrait and show it to your health care professional.
The Family Health Portrait chart on the following pages will help you collect and organize your family infor-
mation. (You can also complete a family health history at http://familyhistory.hss.gov.) 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.
Once you complete the Family Health Portrait, take it to your health care professional so that he or she can
better individualize your health care. Be sure to make a copy for your records and update it as circumstances
change or you learn more about your family’s health history.
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: (Last) _____________ _
(First) _____________ _
Date of Birth
Are you an identical twin?
Record the number of family members
you have in the box below. These are the
family members who are most relevant to
your health history.
NUMBER OF FAMILY MEMBERS
Related by blood, living or deceased
GRANDPARENTS: 4
MoTHER: 1
FATHER: 1
AUNTs:
UNCLES:
SISTERS:
BROTHERS:
DAUGHTERS:
SoNs:
HALF SISTERS:
HALF BROTHERS;
Yes_ No_
Record whether you have any of the 6 conditions listed
below. These diseases are tracked because they are
common and we have very good information about how to
avoid them.
In the spaces labeled “Other,” enter other diseases or
conditions you have.
Do YOU HAVE ANY
YEs/No
AGE AT
OF THESE HEALTH CONDffiONS? DIAGNOSIS
HEART DISEASE
STROKE
DIABETES
CoLON CANCER
BREAST CANCER
OVARIAN CANCER
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Family Infonnation
List below your blood relatives and the illnesses they may have suffered, even if you do not know the medical
name. Refer back to the box, “Number of Family Members” so you don’t forget anyone. Fill in as much
information as you can. Be sure to report diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, or cancer (especially
colon, breast, or ovarian cancers) that have occurred in your family.
FAMILY RELATIONSHIP TWIN? AGE AT LIVING? AGE
(BWOD REU\TED ONLY)
RELATIVE’s NAME
TO YOU (YIN) HEALTH CONDITION DIAGNOSIS (YIN) AT DEATH
IMMEDIATE
(brothers,
sisters,
parents,
children)
MoTHER’s
(her father;
her mother;
her sisters,
her brothers)
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FAMILY
RELATIVE’S NAME
RELATIONSIDP TwiN? AGE AT LIVING? AGE
(BWOD REl-ATED ONLY) TO YOU (YIN) HEALTH CONDITION DIAGNOSIS (YIN) AT DEATH
MoTHER’s
CONTINUED
FATHER’S
(his father,
his mother,
his sisters,
his brothers)
SOURCE: Department of Health and Human Services. 2007. The Surgeon General’s Family History Initiative: My Family
Health Portrait (http:/lwww.hhs.gov/familyhistory; retrieved November 19, 2008).