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(Computerization of Health Records) A health-care issue that has been in the news lately is the computerization of health records. This possibility is being approached cautiously of sensitive privacy and security concerns, among others. [We address such concerns in later exercises.]
Computerizing health records could make easier for patients to share their health profiles and histories among their various health-care professionals. This could improve the quality of health help avoid drug conflicts and erroneous drug prescriptions, reduce costs and, in emergencies, could save lives. In this exercise, you'll design a "starter" HealthProfile class for a person. The Class attributes should include the person 's first name, last name, gender, date of birth (consisting of separate attributes for the month, day and year of birth), height (in inches) and weight (in pounds). You: class should have a constructor that receives this data. For each attribute, provide set and get functions.
The class also should include member functions that calculate and return the user's age in years.
maximum heart rate and target-heart-rate range (see Exercise 3.15), and body mass index see
Exercise 2.30). Write a

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