Patient Education

Please consider the following resources to assist your practice in communicating preconception health messages to your patients/consumers:

Show Your Love is a national preconception consumer resource and social media campaign. Show Your Love is designed to improve the health of young adults by promoting preconception health and wellness. This evidence-based social marketing campaign is seeking to elevate preconception health to same level of awareness and significance as prenatal health.

The Show Your Love Initiative has created a plethora of printable, sharable patient education materials (flyers, booklets) on a variety of preconception health and wellness topics.

The “Wellness Resources” section of this consumer preconception health resource has the top resources for young adults to utilize in their efforts towards healthier choices. There is also a “Well Visit 101” section that covers FAQs and information to navigate the annual well visit and insurance.

More details about Show Your Love here. For more information on how to join this movement please download the Show Your Love Phase 2 Implementation Toolkit. 

Additional Resources to Explore & Share with Patients:

• Understanding the well woman / preventative visits: Care Women Deserve is a campaign and resource to help women understand how to access health services at any stage of their life.
• Contraception and sex: Power to Decide and Bedsider are great sources for contraception information, including local information about access.
• CDC Guidance on Zika Virus Preconception Counseling for Women and Men, found HERE.
• The March of Dimes on preconception health. Click here to read.
• Bright Futures for Women’s Health and Wellness project materials including guides for consumers and clinician toolkits can be accessed here.  Materials are available on maternal wellness, physical activity and healthy eating, and emotional wellness, in English and Spanish.
• Girlshealth.gov is a website for girls to get reliable and accurate information about health issues they will face as they become young women.
• My Family Health Portrait  is an online tool where patients can organize their family history in advance of a clinical visit or follow-up encounter.