Community centered family health history collaboration across communities : how do you make research community-specific and universally-relevant?
Evaluation of family health history represents a first step in identifying genetic contributors to health and can serve as an important basis for improving healthcare and encouraging a healthy lifestyle. Though family health history tools abound, neither the premise that they will make a difference...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
Genetic Alliance
2010, c2010
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| Series: | Genetic Alliance monograph series
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| Collection: | National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Evaluation of family health history represents a first step in identifying genetic contributors to health and can serve as an important basis for improving healthcare and encouraging a healthy lifestyle. Though family health history tools abound, neither the premise that they will make a difference in health outcomes nor the analysis of their usefulness along a medical-nonmedical continuum has been validated in a systematic, evidence-based study as measured by changed behavior leading to better personal health. The fundamental purpose of this project was to create and evaluate a customizable, nonmedical family health history toolkit (Does It Run In the Family?), informed by oral history and folklore traditions |
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| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (57 p.) ill |
| ISBN: | 9780982162224 |