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 Family Health History tool 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 assignment allows the learner to use the tool and become familiar with this initiative.Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.Use the Surgeon General's Family History Tool at (http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/portrait/index.html) to complete this assignment.Directions:Use the Surgeon General's Family History Tool (http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/portrait/index.html) to document your own family history.Designate a proband for the pedigree with a disease or condition of interest.Write a 750-1,000 word summary of your findings. Include the following information:Discussion of the heredity patterns discovered.Evaluate the risk of transmission to other/new family members.Propose the feasibility of using this tool in your own practice.

A lot of information we have learned in this last chapter applies to my life. Heredity is passing on physical or mental traits from one generation to the next. For example, my mom has hazel eyes and so those genes got passed down to me. Both of my parents have freckles; therefore, the chance of me getting freckles were extremely high and that gene also got passed down to me. I also received my moms work ethic by watching her as I have been getting older; I want to see things to completion and I want to do good on those tasks. I received the chromosomes XX because I am a girl; if I was a boy then I would have received the XY chromosomes. I have a couple of the recessive traits that the textbook mentioned; I have straight hair and I am nearsighted. I find it absolutely crazy that there are a lot of sperm being released but only a few reach the egg and survive. Thats means that out of the many that tried to reach the egg but failed, me and you reached the egg against the odds. I was actually a premature baby and I did not realize there were so many risks for premature birth. I am not affected by me being born early now but I did have some trouble when I was first born and had to be hooked up to cords and could not go home for a little while. My mom had a c-section with me because I was 3-4 weeks early. Even though I was a premature baby, I did not have what is considered a low birth weight (5 pounds and 8 ounces). My oldest brother was born through an actual birth and he was bleeding on the inside when he was touched but the doctors did not know what was wrong with him. The same thing happened with my next brother and then me but they were prepared for it by the time they got to me because they had dealt with my brothers. Please reply to this integrating a scholarly article.