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Purpose: To explore personal risk for illness and chronic conditions as impacted by both personal lifestyle choices and family health history.

Overview: Students will identify and assess their personal behaviours and the potential health-risk impact on chronic health conditions. Similarly, the learner will explore their family health history and other non-modifiable risk factors for deleterious health outcomes. Investigating the impact of each of these factors, students will identify the top conditions that they have the greatest risk of developing in the future. With this information, the learner will devise a clear plan that they can implement to mitigate their risk, with strategies supported by scientific literature.

What you Need to Do:

1. Download the Health Action Plan Worksheet package Download Health Action Plan Worksheet packageand bring it with you to class (hard copy or digital copy). A print-friendly version of this document can be downloaded here Download here. Complete each of the investigative activities and submit the paired Canvas reflections.
2. Review the assignment grading rubric and assignment instructions carefully.
3. Complete Part 2 - Personal Health Risk Exploration. Use relevant reflections and worksheets from part 1 to assist.
4. Develop a plan. Complete part 3 of the assignment, again using completed reflections and worksheets from earlier in the assignment.
5. Review assignment and edit for clarity, conciseness and grammar/punctuation.
6. Submit!

Part 1 - Investigation (Ongoing throughout the Semester, you have already submitted these reflections. Further action is not required):
• Health risk questionnaire reflection. Six of eight (6/8) reflections are graded:
o Introduction to Health and Wellness
o Psychosocial Wellness
o Stress and Stress Management
o Sleep
o Physical Activity
o Nutrition
o Substance Use
o Chronic Health Conditions

Part 2 - Personal Health Risk Exploration
• Identification and discussion of at least three personal lifestyle factors that have the greatest likelihood of increasing future risk of disease.
o Using the reflections and investigative questionnaires from Part 1, identify and discuss a minimum of three (3) lifestyle choices that have the greatest likelihood of increasing your personal risk for chronic conditions. Include the following in your discussion:
• What chronic health conditions these modifiable risk factor/lifestyle behavioursincreases your risk of (references required, APA format)
• What made you consider this risk factor - awareness from completing questionnaires/reflections, in-class discussion, past personal consideration, etc.
• Whether there is crossover between risk factors and conditions (e.g., physical inactivity is a risk factor for both diabetes and cardiovascular disease). There may be a compounding impact on your risk for certain conditions.
• Identification of two (2) chronic health conditions that are found in your family tree whereby individual risk is increased due to hereditary linkage (e.g., high cholesterol, Alzheimer's, etc.) If the family health history investigation does not identify two chronic disease risks, please indicate. Include the following:
o Why you chose the two chronic health conditions that you did.
• How prevalent is the condition in your family history? Is it multi-generational? (siblings, parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents, etc.)
• What evidence is there that suggests an increased risk due to genetic factors? (references required, APA format)

Part 3 - Planning for Prevention
• Select one (1) disease/disorder/chronic health condition of interest that you may be at a higher risk of experiencing based on the exploration of personal lifestyle choices and family health history in part 2. Rationale for selecting this condition is required and should be supported by at least two (2) scholarly sources.
• Develop a long-term plan for mitigating the risk of the identified condition(s). Using literature to support your plan, consider the following factors, and include at least three in your plan:
o Physical activity and dietary habits
o Social support and development/maintenance/boundaries of relationships
o Stress and stress management
o Medical plan (check-ups, blood tests, etc.)
o Monitoring signs and symptoms
• Provide evidence of the importance of including these strategies in your plan (APA format)
Finally, select one strategy above and set a habit loop for engaging in the behaviour.
• When developing your plan, consider what life looks like today compared to how it could look 5-10 years from now. How might this plan need to shift to accommodate different phases of life? (Think: full time work, family/friend obligations, a move, injury, high stress, etc.) In making these considerations, you may need to identify priorities - the items that you believe have the biggest pay off. Include three (3) if-then statements in this section.
o g. If I make a move for work, then I will focus on stress management practices like breath-work and will re-start my exercise program once I have settled in my new location.

Attachment:- Personal Health Risk Exploration.rar