All women and men of reproductive age will achieve optimal health and wellness, fostering a healthy life course for them and any children they may have.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided significant support and effort to develop a targeted set of indicators to better allow states to monitor the preconception health and wellness of their populations. The internal workgroup at the CDC (PRESURV) developed a systematic process to evaluate, prioritize, and select 10 indicators that state maternal and child health programs can use for preconception health surveillance.
A manuscript describing the process is under preparation. To learn about the current state of preconception health: Core State Preconception Health Indicators – Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009, MMWR, April 25, 2014.
