“Knowing your family health history is an important way to understand your risk factors and the preventive steps you can take to keep you and your family healthy,” stated DPH Commissioner J. Robert Galvin, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
The goal of the Family Health Initiative is to provide an accessible method for easily obtaining an accurate family health history and, importantly, to use that information in health promotion and disease prevention. Such information is important because, although it is estimated that in a few years sophisticated genetic testing and other related advances will dramatically change how health care is practiced, genetic information can already be used today to improve health.
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