Family History: The importance of telling your story to keep family history alive
An introduction to starting your family history research
VIDEO
BA 1st year history PU important question 2023
FamilySearch Memories
Why Family History Matters
Parental family history of dementia and risk of developing dementia
🔴11th History public important questions 2024
Weirdest Facts About Historical Figures!
COMMENTS
The Value of Case Studies in Family History
In this newspaper case study, the author helps us find research clues by using the following elements: Background: This sets the stage for the person we are following. Comparisons: The primary account of the story is compared with accounts from other newspapers. This shows the value of working with multiple sources in research.
The Family History
Eliciting the family history involves questioning about several areas of a patient's life: medical, psychologic, and social. Family members or significant others may need to be considered as additional sources of information. Data collection can be most efficiently and completely accomplished using the combination of a self-administered health ...
The Family History
The family history has been shown to help predict the risk of such varied health concerns as heart disease, 4 colorectal cancer, 5 breast cancer, 6 ovarian cancer, 7 osteoporosis, 8 atopy or ...
Capturing the Power of the Family History
Family history plays an invaluable role in patient health, providing important clues and insight that allow physicians to predict and detect disease before obvious symptoms appear. The key to using family history effectively is having the knowledge to filter the relevant from the irrelevant and pick up on the subtle clues that provide clarity (in a perhaps muddled pool of family lore and ...
Original research: How is family health history discussed in routine
Introduction. Family health history has been described as the first genetic test. 1 A family health history is defined as 'a record of health information about a person and his or her close relatives. A complete record includes information from three generations of relatives, including children, brothers and sisters, parents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, grandparents, and cousins ...
The Use of Family History in Primary Health Care: A Qualitative Study
The family physicians occupy a privileged place in health care; they have unique relationships with both patients and other family members, providing them with some foreknowledge about the family medical history. Several studies have shown that the vast majority of family physicians consider the family history as important, but there remains ...
Family Health History Case Studies for Clinicians
The National Human Genome Research Institute, the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, and CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics created this series of five public service announcements for clinicians. These case studies demonstrate how clinicians can use family health history information to improve patient health.
'Coming Down the Line'— Patients' Understanding of Their Family History
PURPOSE The family history is becoming an increasingly important feature of health promotion and early detection of common chronic diseases in primary care. Previous studies of patients from genetics clinics suggest a divergence between how persons with a family history perceive and understand their risk and the risk information provided by health professionals.
Time to rethink the capture and use of family history in primary care
Since Hippocrates, doctors have recognised the value of family history.1 It is less clear how GPs should use this information now that gene sequencing and electronic medical records are redefining what is possible. In rare genetic diseases, family history highlights important risks but shared ethnicity, culture, diet, and environment mean that family history is also a risk factor for many ...
Assessing Patient Health Risks with Limited or Unknown Family History
Advances in risk assessment algorithms and better access to genetic testing is changing how we identify individuals at increased risk of hereditary disease. Individuals like Ashley and Josh, with limited family history information, have more options than ever for assessing health risks for themselves and their children.
Why We Need Family History Now More Than Ever
The United States celebrates October as National Family History Month and for good reason. Knowing, recording, preserving, and sharing our family histories can provide countless benefits to individuals, families, and entire societies. Family history is more than pedigree charts, censuses, and birthdates—it can be a powerful antidote against ...
"Who We Are, and Why We Do It": A Demographic Overview and the Cited
There have been several important studies into the research behaviors and motivations of family history researchers. Some have focused on professional genealogists who were, unsurprisingly, found to be "records experts, and knowledgeable about the time periods and geographic areas of their study," 4 while others looked at the information-seeking practices of amateur family historians only ...
Full article: Family History and Life Writing
Many researchers turn to family history to piece together the lives of their female ancestors. Single mothers are front and centre of Piper and Driscoll's work and both authors aim to reclaim these histories. Messer's writing has moved from a focus on motherhood, women, and work and now her own family history.
Using family history information to promote healthy lifestyles and
A family history, reflecting genetic susceptibility as well as shared environmental and behavioral factors, is an important risk factor for common chronic multifactorial diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes and many cancers. The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the evidence for the use of family history as a tool for primary prevention of common chronic diseases ...
Fundamentals of case study research in family medicine and community
Origins of case study research. Case study is a research design that involves an intensive and holistic examination of a contemporary phenomenon in a real-life setting. 1-3 It uses a variety of methods and multiple data sources to explore, describe or explain a single case bounded in time and place (ie, an event, individual, group, organisation or programme).
Awareness of family health history in a predominantly young ...
Family health history (FHH) is a key predictor of health risk and is universally important in preventive care. However, patients may not be aware of the importance of FHH, and thus, may fail to accurately or completely share FHH with health providers, thereby limiting its utility. In this study, we conducted an online survey of 294 young adults and employees based at a US university setting ...
Free Full-Text
Researchers have begun to explore why people are so drawn to family history. Studies find that many people seek a sense of belonging to place and community, reporting that knowledge of the family's history deepens their sense of personal identity (Bottero 2015; Kramer 2011).Based on a survey of 1406 Australian family historians, Shaw identified six general motivations: seeking some specific ...
Why Family Health History Matters
Though you may overlook this section and downplay it to your physician, your family's health history matters. "Family history is important because so many diseases have a genetic component," says Northwestern Medicine Internal Medicine Physician and Pediatrician Rakhee Kalelkar, MD. "If we know about diseases that run in the family now ...
Identity and the practice of family history (CRESC Working Paper 121)
Abstract. Research on family history argues it performs the task of anchoring a sense of 'self' through. tracing ancestral connection and reconstructing narratives of cultural belonging. As ...
Why is it important to know my family health history?
A family health history is a record of health information about a person and his or her close relatives. A complete record includes information from three generations of relatives, including children, brothers and sisters, parents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, grandparents, and cousins. Families have similar genetic backgrounds, and ...
Family History Is Important for Your Health
Family members share their genes, as well as their environment, lifestyles, and habits. Everyone can recognize traits such as curly hair, dimples, leanness, or athletic ability that run in their families. Risks for diseases such as asthma, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease also run in families. Everyone's family history of disease is different.
Why Is Family History Important?
Discovering ancestors can help us form a new identity. Our family history plays an important part in how we view ourselves. Family stories, traditions, culture, and religion are key elements of how people form their identity and view their relationship with the wider community. Throughout the process of genealogy research, we might discover ...
(W.E. Talk) M. Nasim Khan：Why is the 'Road of Xuanzang' so important to
That's why every new discovery, every new piece of research, is always hopeful and leads to a new twist, or even a challenge to established theories about the region's history.
Family Relationships and Well-Being
Family relationships are enduring and consequential for well-being across the life course. We discuss several types of family relationships—marital, intergenerational, and sibling ties—that have an important influence on well-being. We highlight the quality of family relationships as well as diversity of family relationships in explaining ...
IMAGES
VIDEO
COMMENTS
In this newspaper case study, the author helps us find research clues by using the following elements: Background: This sets the stage for the person we are following. Comparisons: The primary account of the story is compared with accounts from other newspapers. This shows the value of working with multiple sources in research.
Eliciting the family history involves questioning about several areas of a patient's life: medical, psychologic, and social. Family members or significant others may need to be considered as additional sources of information. Data collection can be most efficiently and completely accomplished using the combination of a self-administered health ...
The family history has been shown to help predict the risk of such varied health concerns as heart disease, 4 colorectal cancer, 5 breast cancer, 6 ovarian cancer, 7 osteoporosis, 8 atopy or ...
Family history plays an invaluable role in patient health, providing important clues and insight that allow physicians to predict and detect disease before obvious symptoms appear. The key to using family history effectively is having the knowledge to filter the relevant from the irrelevant and pick up on the subtle clues that provide clarity (in a perhaps muddled pool of family lore and ...
Introduction. Family health history has been described as the first genetic test. 1 A family health history is defined as 'a record of health information about a person and his or her close relatives. A complete record includes information from three generations of relatives, including children, brothers and sisters, parents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, grandparents, and cousins ...
The family physicians occupy a privileged place in health care; they have unique relationships with both patients and other family members, providing them with some foreknowledge about the family medical history. Several studies have shown that the vast majority of family physicians consider the family history as important, but there remains ...
The National Human Genome Research Institute, the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, and CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics created this series of five public service announcements for clinicians. These case studies demonstrate how clinicians can use family health history information to improve patient health.
PURPOSE The family history is becoming an increasingly important feature of health promotion and early detection of common chronic diseases in primary care. Previous studies of patients from genetics clinics suggest a divergence between how persons with a family history perceive and understand their risk and the risk information provided by health professionals.
Since Hippocrates, doctors have recognised the value of family history.1 It is less clear how GPs should use this information now that gene sequencing and electronic medical records are redefining what is possible. In rare genetic diseases, family history highlights important risks but shared ethnicity, culture, diet, and environment mean that family history is also a risk factor for many ...
Advances in risk assessment algorithms and better access to genetic testing is changing how we identify individuals at increased risk of hereditary disease. Individuals like Ashley and Josh, with limited family history information, have more options than ever for assessing health risks for themselves and their children.
The United States celebrates October as National Family History Month and for good reason. Knowing, recording, preserving, and sharing our family histories can provide countless benefits to individuals, families, and entire societies. Family history is more than pedigree charts, censuses, and birthdates—it can be a powerful antidote against ...
There have been several important studies into the research behaviors and motivations of family history researchers. Some have focused on professional genealogists who were, unsurprisingly, found to be "records experts, and knowledgeable about the time periods and geographic areas of their study," 4 while others looked at the information-seeking practices of amateur family historians only ...
Many researchers turn to family history to piece together the lives of their female ancestors. Single mothers are front and centre of Piper and Driscoll's work and both authors aim to reclaim these histories. Messer's writing has moved from a focus on motherhood, women, and work and now her own family history.
A family history, reflecting genetic susceptibility as well as shared environmental and behavioral factors, is an important risk factor for common chronic multifactorial diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes and many cancers. The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the evidence for the use of family history as a tool for primary prevention of common chronic diseases ...
Origins of case study research. Case study is a research design that involves an intensive and holistic examination of a contemporary phenomenon in a real-life setting. 1-3 It uses a variety of methods and multiple data sources to explore, describe or explain a single case bounded in time and place (ie, an event, individual, group, organisation or programme).
Family health history (FHH) is a key predictor of health risk and is universally important in preventive care. However, patients may not be aware of the importance of FHH, and thus, may fail to accurately or completely share FHH with health providers, thereby limiting its utility. In this study, we conducted an online survey of 294 young adults and employees based at a US university setting ...
Researchers have begun to explore why people are so drawn to family history. Studies find that many people seek a sense of belonging to place and community, reporting that knowledge of the family's history deepens their sense of personal identity (Bottero 2015; Kramer 2011).Based on a survey of 1406 Australian family historians, Shaw identified six general motivations: seeking some specific ...
Though you may overlook this section and downplay it to your physician, your family's health history matters. "Family history is important because so many diseases have a genetic component," says Northwestern Medicine Internal Medicine Physician and Pediatrician Rakhee Kalelkar, MD. "If we know about diseases that run in the family now ...
Abstract. Research on family history argues it performs the task of anchoring a sense of 'self' through. tracing ancestral connection and reconstructing narratives of cultural belonging. As ...
A family health history is a record of health information about a person and his or her close relatives. A complete record includes information from three generations of relatives, including children, brothers and sisters, parents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, grandparents, and cousins. Families have similar genetic backgrounds, and ...
Family members share their genes, as well as their environment, lifestyles, and habits. Everyone can recognize traits such as curly hair, dimples, leanness, or athletic ability that run in their families. Risks for diseases such as asthma, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease also run in families. Everyone's family history of disease is different.
Discovering ancestors can help us form a new identity. Our family history plays an important part in how we view ourselves. Family stories, traditions, culture, and religion are key elements of how people form their identity and view their relationship with the wider community. Throughout the process of genealogy research, we might discover ...
That's why every new discovery, every new piece of research, is always hopeful and leads to a new twist, or even a challenge to established theories about the region's history.
Family relationships are enduring and consequential for well-being across the life course. We discuss several types of family relationships—marital, intergenerational, and sibling ties—that have an important influence on well-being. We highlight the quality of family relationships as well as diversity of family relationships in explaining ...