Utilizing Family Traditions and Oral History for Health Promotion

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Utilizing Family Traditions and Oral History for Health Promotion: The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to facilitate the public's learning process and knowledge of the genetic contribution to health and disease, the public's genetic "literacy", through educational tool development and dissemination of educational tools. Genetic literacy includes knowing about benefits, risks, and limitations of genetic screening and testing, as well as the implications of medical genetic information in a health care setting, including knowledge of relevant financial, ethical, legal and socio-cultural issues. The educational tools will be based on the previously developed and HRSA/MCHB funded Healthy Choices through Family History Awareness nonmedical family history educational tool. Preference will be given to an applicant that represents consumers and the general public and interdisciplinary professions, including geneticists, and genetic counselors, anthropologists, oral historians, folklorists, genealogists, social workers! , primary care health care providers and others. The applicant must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities to draw upon a breadth of comprehensive expertise, to assemble a geographic and ethnically diverse work group to further develop educational tools and to provide mechanisms for field testing, evaluating and disseminating the tool(s) nationally. In addition, it is expected that as part of the tool(s) development that products and associated educational tools and approaches will be beta tested and evaluated in multiple, diverse and geographically separate communities. The interdisciplinary methodological approach should outline a framework for evaluation of the tool, assessment of the evidence regarding how the tool impacts health status, risk factors(e.g., smoking, exercise, and diet), and preventive behaviors (e.g., screening, prophylactic medication), use of medical services, and risk perception. The project should include an outline of how the applicant would develop and conduct and implement a replicable model for education of communities and other stakeholders. The project also should be structured with input from a broad range of consumers and the general public, and from interdisciplinary professions, including anthropologists, oral historians, folklorists, genealogists, social workers and genetic counselors! and others.