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Preconception care

Africa

• Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
  • Pre-conception counselling for key cardiovascular conditions in Africa: optimising pregnancy outcomes [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Mothers’ utilization and associated factors of preconception care in Africa, a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

Australia

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Interconception care [2020]
  • Preconception care [2018]

• Fertility Society of Australia
  • Reproductive carrier screening [2021]
  • Genetics and genomics [2021]

• Public Health Research and Practice
  • Policies and healthcare to support preconception planning and weight management: optimising long-term health for women and children [2022]

• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
  • Preventive activities prior to pregnancy [2021]

• Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
  • Setting Preconception Care Priorities in Australia Using a Delphi Technique [2022]

Australia, Europe, United States

• Lancet Public Health
  • Addressing reproductive health needs across the life course: an integrated, community-based model combining contraception and preconception care [2023]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Pre-pregnancy Counselling [2021]
  • Genetic carrier screening [2019]

Belgium

• Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
  • Systematic development of an evidence-based website on preconception care [2016]

Belize

• Ministry of Health and Wellness
  • Preconception care and obstetrics [2018]

Canada

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Preconception care: Call for national guidelines [2013]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Preconception care [2018]

China

• BMC Health Services Research
  • China’s community-based strategy of universal preconception care in rural areas at a population level using a novel risk classification system for stratifying couples´ preconception health status [2016]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Factors influencing the quality of preconception healthcare in China: applying a preconceptional instrument to assess healthcare needs [2014]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Nationwide-free preconception care strategy: Experience from China [2022]

Eastern Mediterranean

• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • Summary report on the informal working group on promoting preconception care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt 7–8 September 2015 [2016]
  • Summary report on the meeting on promoting preconception care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Muscat, Oman 25–27 March 2015 [2015]

Ethiopia

• Reproductive Health
  • Knowledge and utilisation of preconception care and associated factors among women in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

India

• Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
  • Good Clinical Practice Recommendations on Preconception Care [2016]

International

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Counseling and surveillance of obstetrical risks for female childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors: recommendations from the International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group [2021]

• BMC Public Health
  • Paternal preconception modifiable risk factors for adverse pregnancy and offspring outcomes: a review of contemporary evidence from observational studies [2023]

• British Journal of General Practice
  • Effectiveness of preconception interventions in primary care: a systematic review [2022]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Outcomes of an International Workshop on Preconception Expanded Carrier Screening: Some Considerations for Governments [2017]

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Prevention of noncommunicable diseases by interventions in the preconception period: A FIGO position paper for action by healthcare practitioners [2020]

• Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
  • A Systematic Review of Clinical Guidelines for Preconception Care [2022]

Low and middle income countries

• Nutrients
  • Effects of Preconception Care and Periconception Interventions on Maternal Nutritional Status and Birth Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2020]

Malaysia

• BMC Public Health
  • Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia: application of intervention mapping [2016]

Netherlands

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Planning is not equivalent to preparing, how Dutch women perceive their pregnancy planning in relation to preconceptional lifestyle behaviour change - a cross-sectional study [2022]
  • Associations between periconceptional lifestyle behaviours and adverse pregnancy outcomes [2021]

South-East Asia

• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • Preconception care [2014]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
  • Current state of preconception care in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic scoping review [2022]

United Kingdom

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Health behaviours in 131,182 UK women planning pregnancy [2021]

• Public Health England
  • Preconception care: making the case

• UK Preconception Partnership
  • Women's preconception health in England: a report card based on cross-sectional analysis of national maternity services data from 2018/2019 [2023]
  • Preconception care in primary care: supporting patients to have healthier pregnancies and babies [2022]
  • Characterising and monitoring preconception health in England: a review of national population-level indicators and core data sources [2022]
  • A wake-up call for preconception health: a clinical review [2021]

United States

• American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Preconception Care (Position Paper) [2022]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Prepregnancy counseling: Committee Opinion No. 762 [2019]

• American Family Physician
  • Recommendations for Preconception Counseling and Care [2013]

• American Journal of Men's Health
  • Men's Preconception Health and Fertility Intentions: A Latent Class Analysis Approach [2022]

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
  • Preconception care and severe maternal morbidity in the United States [2022]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Disparities in Preconception Health Indicators — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013–2015, and Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2013–2014 [2018]
  • Core State Preconception Health Indicators — Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009 [2014]
  • Preconception Care

• Health Affairs
  • ACA Medicaid Expansions Increased Preconception Health Counseling, Folic Acid Intake, and Effective Postpartum Contraception [2020]

• Journal of Women's Health
  • Surveillance Indicators for Women’s Preconception Care [2020]
  • Sexual Orientation Disparities in Preconception Health [2020]

• Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes
  • Interconception Care for Primary Care Providers: Consensus Recommendations on Preconception and Postpartum Management of Reproductive-Age Patients With Medical Comorbidities [2021]

• Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
  • Association Between Recommended Preconception Health Behaviors and Screenings and Improvements in Cardiometabolic Outcomes of Pregnancy [2021]

• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #66: Prepregnancy evaluation and pregnancy management of patients with solid organ transplants [2023]

• Women's Health Issues
  • Preconception Health Risks among U.S. Women: Disparities at the Intersection of Disability and Race or Ethnicity [2021]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Preconception care: Maximizing the gains for maternal and child health - Policy brief [2013]
  • Preconception care to reduce maternal and childhood mortality and morbidity [2013]
  • Meeting to develop a global consensus on preconception care to reduce maternal and childhood mortality and morbidity: World Health Organization Headquarters, Geneva, 6–7 February 2012: meeting report [2013]

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