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Title: Genetics and personal health
Description: Overview Each year the hospital where you work, Stronger Memorial hosts a Wellness Fair for its employees. The Fair is well attended; people are encouraged to use their breaks and lunch time to tour the booths and learn about issues of personal and professional importance. This year, you are on the Wellness Fair organizing committee and will be working with colleagues from around the hospital to develop educational materials for various booths. To get started on these materials, it is important to first have a solid understanding of medical terminology and anatomy and physiology of body systems. Directions Another booth at the Wellness Fair will help raise awareness about the importance of understanding family medical history and the role genetics play in personal health. In the future, genetic testing and counseling are going to play a more prominent role in healthcare and bring with them some unique benefits and challenges. For this booth, you will focus on the basics of genetics to help people understand how traits are inherited and how their genetic make-up impacts personal health. You will create: A poster of a pedigree explaining how a common trait is passed through three generations of a family. Trace either dimples (a dominant trait) or red/green colorblindness (a recessive trait) for your poster. Use a presentation slide or a text document to make your poster and be sure to use standard formatting to: label icons accurately and indicate dominant and recessive Personal Health Risk Assessment for SMH employees to take to evaluate their family history (for the purpose of this activity, family is defined as blood relatives including mother, father, siblings, maternal/paternal grandparents) and personal health choices. Use a presentation slide or a text document to make your risk assessment. This should have a total of 10 - 12 measurable questions in the following risk areas: Genetic risks Lifestyle choices Nutrition and physical activity Like other checklist-type risk assessments, include a way to score the results and a summary of findings for each of the different ranges of possible scores: high-risk, medium-risk, and low-risk. DELIVERABLES Pedigree Poster Accepted File Types: .doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt, .pdf, .jpg, .png, .gif, .xls, .xlsx Personal Health Risk Assessment Accepted File Types: .doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt, .pdf

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Genetics and Personal Health: Gold path promoting health and awareness
By Phillip gavhu Southern New Hampshire University 2021

Overview
Each year the hospital where you work, Stronger Memorial hosts a Wellness Fair for its employees
...
This year, you are on the Wellness Fair organizing
committee and will be working with colleagues from around the hospital to develop educational materials
for various booths
...


Directions
Another booth at the Wellness Fair will help raise awareness about the importance of understanding family
medical history and the role genetics play in personal health
...
For this booth, you will focus on the basics of genetics to help people understand how traits are
inherited and how their genetic make-up impacts personal health
...
A poster of a pedigree explaining how a common trait is passed through three generations of a
family
...
Use a presentation slide or a text document to make your poster and be sure to use
standard formatting to:
o
o

label icons accurately and
indicate dominant and recessive

2
...
Use a presentation slide or a text
document to make your risk assessment
...


DELIVERABLES



Pedigree Poster
Accepted File Types:
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docx,
...
rtf,
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pdf,
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png,
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xls,
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doc,
...
odt,
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txt,
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Patients health is evaluated by coordinate medical check-up of patient
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GENETICS Blood relatives is someone who has the same parents or ancestors as another
person for example including mother, father, siblings, maternal/paternal grandparents
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Though, one of the
most critical challenges in front is to advance explain clearly how genes provide
to diseases which have a complicated arrangement of inheritance, for instance in the cases
of diabetes, asthma, cancer, and mental illness (Mellisa Conrad
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Please answer yes or no to the questions below
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Y/N
Were your blood relatives ever diagnosed with cancer disease?
(Harvard Health Publishing, 2017)
...

TOTAL GENETICS SCORE

Y/N
Y=

N=

LIFESTYLE CHOICES
A type of way of living or wellness relevant related routines (behavioural factors) would have
a greater effect on an individual health
...
Use the rating scale
below that answers the following questions
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I am not a tobacco user (i
...
, smokeless tobacco, pipes cigars or
Cigarettes)
2
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I take 8 hours of sleep per night
TOTAL LIFESTYLE SCORE

NUTRITION
4
...
I eat minimum 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day
...
I eat food rich in fibre-whole grain products such as cereals breads and
Beans etc daily
...
gov, 2015)
TOTAL NUTRITION SCORE

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
7
...


8
...
gov, 2018)
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I stay with a of clean drinking water in the event that of pollution to water supply or
natural disaster
...
e
...
)
(HealthyPeople
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10
...
gov, 2018)
...
Look at your low
score areas and devise a plan to make them better!

15-30 – Medium Risk
If you are in this score area, you could better your understanding in managing a fine
health status
...
View at the areas you scored less and point an area to
concentrate on
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0-15 – High Risks
That is the dangerous area
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Perhaps you are not mindful and would gain from
some learning on keeping better health procedure which would lessen your risks for
preventable chronic diseases which would result to life-time impairment
...
Several people have been in
these roads before
...

Everyone begins someplace
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...
medicinenet
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htm

Harvard Health Publishing, 2017January The family history of cancer Retrieved from
https://www
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harvard
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nature
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ncbi
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nih
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gov
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Dietary Guidelines
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gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/resources/2015-2020_Dietary_Guidelines
...
gov
...
Physical Activity
...
gov/paguidelines/secondedition/pdf/Physical_Activity_Guidelines_2nd_edition
...
today
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imedpub
...
php


Title: Genetics and personal health
Description: Overview Each year the hospital where you work, Stronger Memorial hosts a Wellness Fair for its employees. The Fair is well attended; people are encouraged to use their breaks and lunch time to tour the booths and learn about issues of personal and professional importance. This year, you are on the Wellness Fair organizing committee and will be working with colleagues from around the hospital to develop educational materials for various booths. To get started on these materials, it is important to first have a solid understanding of medical terminology and anatomy and physiology of body systems. Directions Another booth at the Wellness Fair will help raise awareness about the importance of understanding family medical history and the role genetics play in personal health. In the future, genetic testing and counseling are going to play a more prominent role in healthcare and bring with them some unique benefits and challenges. For this booth, you will focus on the basics of genetics to help people understand how traits are inherited and how their genetic make-up impacts personal health. You will create: A poster of a pedigree explaining how a common trait is passed through three generations of a family. Trace either dimples (a dominant trait) or red/green colorblindness (a recessive trait) for your poster. Use a presentation slide or a text document to make your poster and be sure to use standard formatting to: label icons accurately and indicate dominant and recessive Personal Health Risk Assessment for SMH employees to take to evaluate their family history (for the purpose of this activity, family is defined as blood relatives including mother, father, siblings, maternal/paternal grandparents) and personal health choices. Use a presentation slide or a text document to make your risk assessment. This should have a total of 10 - 12 measurable questions in the following risk areas: Genetic risks Lifestyle choices Nutrition and physical activity Like other checklist-type risk assessments, include a way to score the results and a summary of findings for each of the different ranges of possible scores: high-risk, medium-risk, and low-risk. DELIVERABLES Pedigree Poster Accepted File Types: .doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt, .pdf, .jpg, .png, .gif, .xls, .xlsx Personal Health Risk Assessment Accepted File Types: .doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt, .pdf