Family Tree Assignment

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Medical Family Tree Assignment

PART ONE: EVALUATING YOUR OWN PERSONAL HEALTH

Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your own personal health habits is an important first step in paving the way to a health y future.

1.  Complete the wellness worksheets (instructions below), evaluating your own personal health and wellness. Attach your filled-in responses to the back of this project.

·  Go to the website: http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/hhp/worksheets/#1

·  Complete the worksheet, “Evaluate Your Lifestyle,” found on the General Wellness link.

PART TWO: FAMILY MEDICAL TREE DIAGRAM

Knowing your family’s medical history can help you with early screening detection and prevention of disease. This information can be shared with your family and health care providers.

1.  Getting started: Read “Medical History: Compiling Your Medical Family Tree”

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/adult-health/in-depth/medical-history/art-20044961?id=hq01707&_ga=1.165574783.1172449748.1417625161

2.  Please go back as far as you can in your family tree, and create a diagram on letter or legal size paper that depicts your family’s medical history. You may choose to enter and then print out your family tree using the tools at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/familyhistory.html

Depicting the following:

·  Major (non-communicable) physical and/or mental illness/addictions

·  Age of onset of major illness (if known)

·  Cause of death/ age of death (if known)

·  Squares = Male; Circles = Female (or other design if shown in “Legend”)

·  Note those who have passed away (i.e. slash, “X,” or other mark)

PART THREE: ANALYSIS OF DIAGRAM

After compiling and organizing the medical data, you will write a two to three page report analyzing and summarizing your findings. This should be a well-written paper, free of spelling and grammatical errors. You should utilize good writing techniques—including logical organization, topic sentences, and transitions. See rubric for detailed criteria.

Medical Family Tree Rubric

FORMATTING:
All papers included and attached in order:
1.  Rubric
2.  Diagram
3.  Analysis / /10
Completion and adequacy of SII reflection / /10
DIAGRAM:
Differentiates between male/female / /5
Identifies major physical and mental illnesses/addictions / /5
Identifies age of individual / age of onset of disease(s) …or uses “Unknown” / /5
Identifies those who have passed away / /5
Effort: organization, neatness, creativity / /15
ANALYSIS:
Comprehensive, in-depth, thoughtful analysis of family medical history / /10
Recognized and described (made connections) about similar/same illness (i.e. cancers) in first/second degree relatives / /10
Summarized current status of overall health / /5
Identified actions that need to be taken to increase long-term quality of life (based on genetic factors) / /10
Well-written (well-organized, no typos, no spelling errors, no grammatical errors, double spaced, includes topic and transitional sentences) / /10
TOTAL POINTS: / /100