Family Health Tree and research paper 5 pages

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Syllabus

Assignments

 Family Health Tree and Paper

Due Date: May 3rd

Unit 1 focuses on the health status of your core family (parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, nieces and nephews). You will collect relevant health information for each family member. The purpose of this project is to be able become proactive in good health and wellness by becoming knowledgeable about possibly genetic and lifestyle health factors that may be affecting you. All of the health information will be presented on a family health tree, and you are encouraged to be creative. After assembling the health tree, you will examine it for lifestyle risk factors and disease patterns. If particular diseases or disorders run through several members of the family, you will investigate that disease (using textbooks, professional peer-reviewed journals, and Internet sources) to determine what risk factors are associated with the disease and whether or not there is a known genetic or familial predisposition. Based on the analysis of health conditions and risk factors occurring on both sides of your family (maternal and paternal), you will then write a summary of your findings in a research paper and develop personal risk-reduction measures. Read the chapters in Unit 1 so that you can plan your data collection accordingly. This project should be completed over the duration of the course and in conjunction with the other units. It is recommended that you complete the data collection phase of the project by the time you reach unit 6. Following Unit 6, you should assemble your family tree, and then write the research paper.

Family Tree Due May 3rd

The family health tree is a major assignment and will take considerable effort throughout the entire course. You should spend the first portion of the course collecting data, followed by assembling your tree, and finally writing the paper during the latter part of the course. You will be graded on the following:

Data

Your family tree should include the information below for you and your children, as well as your parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews. (Note: Use the data collection forms to help you stay organized.)

 date of birth (year)  occupation

•   physical description (height and weight: short/average/tall and underweight/normal/overweight/obese)

•   health behaviors
  o smoking/nonsmoking

o alcohol consumption
o diet patterns (high fat, low fat, low fiber) o exercise
o druguse/abuse/addiction

•   diseases and date of onset/diagnosis

•   other related health conditions (includes surgeries)

•   if deceased, the cause of death and age (if death is caused by disease, also include

age of onset).

Organization of family tree

Your family tree should be pedigree style. It should provide information about each family member such as age, alive or decease, diseases, lifestyle, etc, that is meaningfully collected from the interviews with family. It should be displayed in color and symbol form. Some information can be in words but should be minimized.

1. You will be graded on the following:

   •   information provided

   •   use of symbols

   •   use of color)

   •   explanatory key

   •   Easy to read and interpret