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Be sure to read through the end of this document! Research your family. Please do not use “unknown” unless it is necessary. If you have questions about researching your family, contact your instructor for guidance. If you were adopted, the CDC website provides tips on accessing family medical information. Read the information under the title "Family Health History and Your Child; If you are adopted." If, after exhausting efforts, you cannot obtain your biological family's information, please use the family that you grew up with for this assignment. You will need to include a summary of your attempts to contact family members. We learn coping and lifestyle habits through those people with whom we grow up, so this information is important. Do your best to learn what you can about your family's health history. *When students report that there are no health conditions in their family, they are urged to take another look. It is highly unusual that there are absolutely no issues present or past within a family. Is everyone getting annual screenings and monitoring for early indicators? If family members are not going to the doctors for annual physicals and lab work, then how do they know what underlying issues there are? Many times people feel fine, until they don't and then it is often too late. Review the CDC website about the importance of gathering your family's health history. Be sure to click on all the tabs: About Family Health History, Family Health History Tools and Resources, Family Health History and Pregnancy, Family Health History and Your Child, and Family Health History for Adults. Next, you will be creating your own family health portrait to use for all three parts of this course project. Constructing a family health tree has three broad steps: (1) mapping the family structure, (2) recording family information, and (3) exploring family relationships. Begin your family health portrait by using the online tool available at https://phgkb.cdc.gov/FHH/html/index.html. Follow the instructions step-by-step to Create a Family Health History. Note: it is strongly recommended that you save the information you include so that you do not have to re-enter all of it if you have to leave the project and return to it later. Read the Disclaimer at the bottom of the page: Disclaimer: The Surgeon General's My Family Health Portrait tool does NOT allow the government or other entities to access your information. The tool provides the software for organizing your information, but your information is not transmitted back to government or other servers and can only be downloaded by you. Your information is never available to anyone else, unless you choose to share it. The Surgeon General's tool does not provide medical advice. For questions related to family health history and your health, talk to your doctor. Once you fill out "Your Personal Information", "Your Health Information", and "Your Family Background Information", click "Next." Fill in the pop-up screen to "Add Family Members." Under "Manage your data", click "Save Data" To add the health history of a family member, click on the pencil icon; a pop-up window will appear with the title "Enter Family Member's Health History." Fill out this information and click "Next." Continue editing each family member until you have completed a full health history. Be sure to include age, birth/death, cause of death, major illnesses/surgeries/health conditions (current and past). Examples of medical conditions to include: (this is not exhaustive) Diabetes, obesity, smoking, alcohol or drug dependence (prescription or not), high or low blood pressure, cancer, arthritis, asthma, epilepsy, heart conditions, mental illness, liver diseases, hearing problems, allergies. Be sure to click on the "Check your familial risk" box to obtain information for the paper. When you are done, you will need to go to the "View and print data" section where you will be able to view both the Pedigree Drawing and the Family Health Table. Print and/or save the images so that you can upload them as an attachment to the Family Tree Part 1 assignment submission box. For Part 1, you will simply upload your completed family health tree. If you do not include both the Pedigree Drawing and the Family Health Table, you will lose points. Be sure to use an acceptable file extension: .doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf, .PNG, .JPG, .JPEG. Do NOT use formats of "Apple Pages", "Google Docs" or zip files; Blackboard does not support these formats. There is no written paper for Part 1.