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First published on July 24, 2007, doi:10.1177/1524839906293395

Health Promotion Practice 2007;8:350.

A more recent version of this article appeared on October 1, 2007

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The Use of Family Health Histories to Address Health Disparities in an African American Community

Kristen J. Vogel MS*, Vinaya S. Murthy, Beth Dudley, Robin E. Grubs, Elizabeth Gettig, Angela Ford, and Stephen B. Thomas

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kvogel{at}mdanderson.org.


  Abstract
African Americans continue to suffer from health disparities. The Center for Minority Health (CMH) within the University of Pittsburgh has the mission to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. CMH has designed and implemented the Family Health History (FHH) Initiative. The FHH Initiative places genetic-counseling graduate students in the African American community to provide risk assessments and emphasize the importance of family history as it pertains to disease prevention. The FHH Initiative also allows participants to enroll into the Minority Research Recruitment Database (MRRD). This enables CMH to alert individuals to available research participation opportunities. In the first year of this program, 225 African Americans completed their family health histories. More than 60% of individuals enrolled in the MRRD. The authors report their initial successes and challenges of an initiative that incorporates awareness of family history information, proper screening guidelines, behavior-modification recommendations, and support for participation in clinical research.
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