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A Comprehensive Initiative Promoting Family Health History Development And Utilization Among Students At Olivet Nazarene University, Rachel C. Waltz

Honors Program Projects

Health care professionals agree that family health histories help detect and prevent diseases that run in families, but few Americans have taken the time to discover and utilize their family health histories. Young adults, such as college students, are generally healthy and forming habits for lifelong health. This project seeks to promote the importance of compiling individual family health histories among college students to be used to assess risk factors and methods of early prevention for genetically influenced disease processes.

First, the project acknowledges a lack of preparedness and family health history awareness among college aged students as they become …