Knowing where you stand on these issues can help you to decide what is most important in your life and which health issues demand your greatest concern. Promoting your health requires that you know the kind of life you want to live. This module will help you to sort through your life goals so that you may better decide which health issues are most important to you in the long run. This is a standard, but comprehensive, health history such as you might fill out in a doctor's office. It is designed to help you to explore your health concerns, past and present.
Many diseases run in families.
Knowing what health problems your family members have had can help to predict what problems you are most likely to develop in the future. This module will help you to sort through your family s health history. It will also help you to see patterns of inheritance in your family of simple, purely genetic health-related traits. Knowing which health problems you are at risk to develop in years to come can help you to know how to work to prevent them now. This module will help you to systematically discover which current and potential health problems are most important to you, given your health history, values, and life goals.