The clinical content of preconception care:preconception care for special populations

摘要

Ongoing preconception risk assessment, guidance, and intervention, when integrated into primary and specialty care, can accomplish 3 goals. The first is to minimize risks for a woman, if she becomes pregnant, and risks to her offspring. The second is to optimize a woman's health in her reproductive years and beyond. The third is to assist a woman to proactively plan for her reproductive future. These goals are important to achieve for all women of reproductive age, but may be of particular importance among women who are at risk for poor reproductive health outcomes or who have special reproductive health needs.