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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
  • Preconception care [2024]
  • Interconception care [2020]

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

• Queensland Health
  • Preconception and prenatal genetic screening

• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
  • Reproductive carrier screening
  • Preconception

• SA Health
  • Preconception Advice Clinical Guideline

• 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 [2024]
  • 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 Belize
  • Preconception care and obstetrics [2018]

Brazil

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Prevalence of preconception health indicators among Brazilian women of reproductive age [2023]

Canada

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

• Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Medical, behavioural and social preconception and interconception risk factors among pregnancy planning and recently pregnant Canadian women [2022]

• Perinatal Services BC
  • Preconception Health Care
  • Physical Activity During the Preconception Period
  • Mental Health During the Preconception Period
  • Healthy Eating During the Preconception Period

• 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]

Ethiopia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • The magnitude of preconception care utilization and associated factors among women in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024 [2025]

• BMJ Open
  • Association between preconception care and family planning and previous adverse birth outcomes in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Ministry of Health Ethiopia
  • National Preconception Care Guideline [2024]

• 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]

• Indian Academy of Pediatrics
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics Consensus Guidelines on Preconception Care [2024]

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 Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Preconception health policy, health promotion, and health services to achieve health in current and future generations: a narrative review [2025]

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

• BMC Women's Health
  • Behavior changes to promote preconception health: a systematic review [2025]

• 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
  • FIGO Preconception Checklist: Preconception care for mother and baby [2024]
  • Preconception Care: Making the Difference for Mother and Baby [2023]
  • Prevention of noncommunicable diseases by interventions in the preconception period: A FIGO position paper for action by healthcare practitioners [2020]

• Reproductive Health
  • Preconception care: closing the gap in the continuum of care to accelerate improvements in maternal, newborn and child health [2014]

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

• Systematic Reviews
  • Role of preconception nutrition supplements in maternal anemia and intrauterine growth: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [2025]

Ireland, United Kingdom

• BMC Public Health
  • Preconception health and care policies, strategies and guidelines in the UK and Ireland: a scoping review [2024]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Open
  • Understanding preconception care: a scoping review of knowledge, attitudes and practices among reproductive age individuals, healthcare workers and stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries [2025]

• 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]

• PLoS ONE
  • The economic burden of perinatal mortality due to inaction on preconception health in low and middle-income countries: A population attributable fraction and economic impact analysis [2025]

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]

• Midwifery
  • Current preconception care practice in the Netherlands - An evaluation study among birth care professionals [2023]
  • How to improve preconception care in a local setting? Views from Dutch multidisciplinary healthcare providers [2022]

Nigeria

• Reproductive Health
  • "Is the health system ready?" A qualitative exploration of stakeholders' opinions about the feasibility of preconception care services in the Nigerian health system [2022]

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]

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Preconception health risks among women of reproductive age in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of implications for preconception care [2025]

United Kingdom

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Prevalence and patterns of pre-existing multimorbidity in pregnancy in Northern Ireland: a population-based, retrospective study using linked routinely collected healthcare data [2025]
  • Epidemiology of pre-existing multimorbidity in pregnant women in the UK in 2018: a population-based cross-sectional study [2022]
  • Health behaviours in 131,182 UK women planning pregnancy [2021]

• British Journal of General Practice
  • Preconception indicators and associations with health outcomes reported in UK routine primary care data: a systematic review [2025]

• Public Health England
  • Preconception care: making the case

• UK Preconception Partnership
  • What Does 'Preconception Health' Mean to People? A Public Consultation on Awareness and Use of Language [2024]
  • 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
  • Impact of Geography and Rurality on Preconception Health Status in the United States [2023]
  • Association Between Recommended Preconception Health Behaviors and Screenings and Improvements in Cardiometabolic Outcomes of Pregnancy [2021]
  • Disparities in Preconception Health Indicators — Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013–2015, and Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2013–2014 [2018]

• 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]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Pre-Pregnancy Care and Prenatal Care

• National Society of Genetic Counselors
  • Expanded carrier screening for reproductive risk assessment: An evidence-based practice guideline from the National Society of Genetic Counselors [2023]

• 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]

Western countries

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
  • A comprehensive assessment of preconception health needs and interventions regarding women of childbearing age: a systematic review [2022]

• Midwifery
  • Experiences in the delivery of preconception and pregnancy care for LGBTIQA+ people: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of patient and healthcare provider perspectives [2023]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Reframing care and services to improve preconception health: meeting report, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-9 May 2024 [2024]
  • 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]

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

• 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]

WHO South-East Asia Region

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

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  • Obstetrics, perinatology