Homework: Emerging Areas of Human Health- Family History
Description
Taking a family history is an important step in determining current and future health needs and education. There are many tools available to complete a comprehensive health history. The Surgeon General's tool, "My Family Health Portrait," located in the topic Resources, is part of the larger Family Health History Initiative that encourages people to talk about and write down health issues that seem to run in the family, bringing a larger focus on this important issue. This homework allows the learner to use the tool and become familiar with this initiative.
General Guidelines:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the homework:
a. Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing homeworks.
b. This homework requires that at least three additional scholarly research sources related to this topic and at least two in-text citation for each source be included.
c. You are required to submit this homework to LopesWrite for checking similarity score and plagiarism.
Directions:
Perform the following to successfully complete the homework:
a. Use the Surgeon General's tool, "My Family Health Portrait," located in the topic Resources, to document your own family history.
b. Designate a proband for the pedigree with a disease or condition of interest.
c. A summary in (750-1,000 words) of your findings that includes the following:
o Discuss of the heredity patterns discovered.
o Evaluate the risk of transmission to other/new family members.
o Propose the feasibility of using this tool in your own practice.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Reference
• Li, D., Xia, H., Li, Z., Hua, L., & Li, L. (2015). Identification of novel breast cancer subtype-specific biomarkers by integrating genomics analysis of DNA copy number aberrations and miRNA-mRNA dual expression profiling. BioMed Research International, 2015, 1-17.
• Calzone, K. A., Kirk, M., Tonkin, E., Badzek, L., Benjamin, C., & Middleton, A. (2018). The global landscape of nursing and genomics. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 50(3), 249-256.
• Pellestor, F. (2019). Chromoanagenesis: Cataclysms behind complex chromosomal rearrangements. Molecular Cytogenetics, 12(6).