ArticleReproductive health2014
Preconception care: it's never too early.
Article in Reproductive health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Mitigating the Impact of Intergenerational Risk Factors on Stunting: Insights From Seven of the Most Food Insecure Districts in South Africa.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and health status of childbearing age young women regarding preconception health - an Italian survey.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2022Article
- Changes in sexual behavior among high-school students over a 40-year period.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Plasma glycemic measures and fecundability in a Singapore preconception cohort study.Fertility and sterility · 2021Article
- Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment on offspring obesity risk: A fetal programming perspective.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2020Review
- Identifying the needs and problems of those left behind, and working with them to address inequities in sexual and reproductive health: a key focus of Reproductive Health for 2020.Reproductive health · 2020Article
- "It's Never Too Early": Preconception Care and Postgenomic Models of Life.Frontiers in sociology · 2020Article
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- Maternal Cannabis Use in the Perinatal Period: Data From the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Marijuana Supplement, 2016-2018.Journal of addiction medicineArticle
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Abstract
The preconception window has been recognized as one of the earliest sensitive windows of human development, and interventions that focus on this period have the potential to affect not only pregnancy but long term outcomes as well. The journal Reproductive Health has published a supplement entitled 'Preconception Interventions' which includes a series of systematic reviews regarding the impact of public health interventions during the preconception period on maternal and child health. These articles describe the role that poor preconception health plays in creating health disparities across the globe. The reviews highlight our current understanding (or lack thereof) regarding how both maternal and paternal preconception health and knowledge shapes the long-term health of not only children, but of families, communities, and nations. Researchers and healthcare workers should take particular note of these interventions, as the preconception time period may be as important as the pregnancy and post-pregnancy periods, and is critical in terms of bridging the gap in the continuum of care, particularly for adolescents.
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