Your family health history is a list of health conditions, diseases, mental illnesses, and the age and reason for death of your parents, grandparents, siblings, and children.
Tips & Links
- In your health profile, write your family health history, including only blood relatives and those connected to you genetically.
- For each person, include their health conditions, age they were diagnosed, current age or age of their death, and the cause of death.
- Learn about your family health history to help you understand disease and health patterns in your family so that you can make positive changes in your health and lifestyle.
- Keep your health profile up to date and share it with your physician for preventive screening tests.
- Learn about hereditary cancers from the BC Cancer Agency.
- Learn how to create a detailed family health history from Bayshore Home Health.
Tools – Handouts & Videos
Categories: My Health Information, Senior
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