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.Below please find a list of several key publications about preconception health that have played important roles in pushing the movement forward.
- Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs, Opportunities and Strategies for Improving Preconception Health through Health Reform March 2015
- Action Plan for the National Initiative on Preconception Health and Health Care (PCHHC), A Report of the PCHHC Steering Committee, 2012-14.
- Understanding Women’s Preconception Health Goals Audience Segmentation Strategies for a Preconception Health Campaign, Social Marketing Quarterly, May 2014.
- Core State Preconception Health Indicators – Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009, MMWR, April 2014.
- Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 2014.
- Summary of Findings from the Reconvened Select Panel on Preconception Health and Health Care Booklet, Provided by CityMatCH, November 2014.
- Preconception healthcare and congenital disorders: systematic review of the effectiveness of preconception care programs in the prevention of congenital disorders, Maternal and Child Health, October 2013.
- Medications in the first trimester of pregnancy: most common exposures and critical gaps in understanding fetal risk, PDS, July 2013.
- Effective Strategies for Promoting Preconception Health – From Research to Practice American Journal of Health Promotion, 2013
- Preconception Care, Women’s Health, and Findings from the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study (CePAWHS) Weisman et al.
- Preconception Care: Clinical and Policy Implications of the Preconception Agenda, JCOM, April 2010
- Speeding the Progress to Improved Health and Wellness for North Carolina’s Women, Moos MK, NC Med J, 2009.
- The Future of Preconception Care – Women’s Health Issues, Volume 18, Issue 6, December 2008
- Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care – United States, A Report of the CDC / ATSDR Preconception Care Work Group and the Select Panel on Preconception Care, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 2006
