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Article: National Family History Day--Thanksgiving Day.(Notice to Readers)
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- November 16, 2007
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Beginning in 2004, Thanksgiving Day was declared National Family History Day by the U.S. Surgeon General to encourage families to discuss their health histories. Although 96% of persons in the United States believe that knowing their family history is important, only one third of them have ever tried to gather and write down their family health history (1).
The Office of the Surgeon General, in collaboration with several agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, developed a tool for recording family health information (available at https://familyhistory.hhs.gov). In addition, in 2002, CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics (NOPHG) ...