Recommendations To Improve Preconception Health And Health Care

Recommendations To Improve Preconception Health And Health Care. Recommend a daily multivitamin containing 400 mcg (04 mg) of folic acid for all women who could become pregnant and discuss risk factors that may warrant a higher dose At a minimum women should start taking a supplement 3 months before conception to reduce the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs) in infants.

Interventions include folic acid supplementation testing for rubella seronegativity and vaccination if indicated tight control of pregestational diabetes careful management of hypothyroidism.

Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and …

PDF fileAction Steps • acid supplementation smoking cessation alcohol misuse diabetes and obesity) • Expand data systems and surveys (eg the Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring System and the Na­ tional Survey of Family Growth) to monitor individual experiences related to preconception care.

Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health

PDF filePreconception care which is defined as interventions aimed to identify and modify biomedical behavioral and social risks to a woman’s health or pregnancy outcome through prevention and management should be addressed with every woman of childbearing age prior to conception.

Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health

Specifically it focuses on the first six of ten “Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Healthcare” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) These recommendations to improve health outcomes are Individual Responsibility Across the Lifespan Consumer Awareness Preventive Visits Interventions for Identified Risks.