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.
Please consider the following resources to assist your practice in communicating preconception health messages to your patients/consumers. Additional resources coming soon.
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 “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 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. Please see resources linked to the Preconception Health and Healthcare Resource Center including information and products for women and men on preconception health through the Show Your Love campaign.
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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 can be accessed here. Additional practice supports including promoting emotional well being can be found here.
Girlshealth.gov has materials, accessed here.
My Family Health Portrait is accessible here. Clinicians could direct patients to the site so that they can organize their family history in advance of a clinical visit or follow-up encounter. A paper version of the tool can be downloaded here.
