Family history and the oral tradition of storytelling are highly valued in American Indian/Alaska Native communities. This project translates patient knowledge of personal family health history into a Family Health History Awareness Tool for health care consumers and providers. The Urban Indian Health Institute will produce a Family Health History Awareness Tool, bringing together a traditional medical model of a Family Health History Awareness Tool and a community based approach, which enables storytelling to drive the collection of family health history. Basic Community Based Participatory Research principals will be used to evaluate the Family Health History Awareness Tool influenced by community members knowledgeable in the American Indian/Alaska Native culture.
Partners: Genetic Alliance, Inc., University of Washington – School of Public Health
Contact: Ursula Tsosie, phone 206-812-3038
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