Family Health History
Information for the Community
Introduction
To download a worksheet to record your family health history, go to the Family History worksheet (PDF 271KB).
The worksheet is also available as a PDF pamphlet (PDF 160KB).
An information sheet (PDF 163KB) is also available on health promotion ideas to promote family health history in the community.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):
- Why is it important to collect my family’s health history?
- What can’t my family’s health history tell me?
- How should I document my family’s health history?
- Which of my relatives should I collect health information from?
- What sort of information should I collect?
- Which health conditions can run in families?
- There is a strong history of heart disease in my family, does that mean I will get heart disease too?
- If I find out that I am at risk, what can I do to protect myself and my family?
- What if I don’t have a family health history of any of these diseases, does that mean that I am not at risk?
- What if I am adopted and can’t find information about my family health history?
- What if I am estranged from my family or they don’t want to talk about it?
- What should I do with my family health history once I have collected it?
- Where can I get more information?
Australian Better Health Initiative: A joint Australian, State and Territory government initiative.
File Formats
Some documents for download on this website are in a Portable Document Format (PDF). To read these files you might need to download Adobe® Acrobat Reader.