Family Health History Goals and Objectives
- Promote conversations about health within the family
- Provide different methods for communicating with relatives about family health history
- Explain why genetics is important to the family
- Use health stories to demonstrate the impact of family history on health
- Translate family health history into healthy choices
- Explain the relationship between heredity and lifestyle
- Provide methods of organizing family health history to allow risk assessment
- Educate about diseases that run in families
- Improve provider access to patient family health history and relevant resources
- Evaluate utility of tools to engage families in their health decisions
- Increase community involvement in health education
- Include community members in planning and implementation of family health history toolkit
- Increase accessibility of products through customization
- Disseminate products to diverse communities
- Create an effective model for community engagement
- Evaluate utility of family health history for improving health outcomes
