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Preconception Care

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Preconception care is defined as a set of interventions that aim to identify and modify biomedical, behavioral, and social risks to a woman’s health or pregnancy outcome through prevention and management (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MMWR 55(RR-6):1–23, 2006). Interconception care is care provided to women beginning with childbirth until the birth of a subsequent child. It is a subset of preconception care that addresses the continuity of risk from one pregnancy to the next (Lu et al., Matern Child Health J 10:S107–S112, 2006). Preconception and interconception care has increasingly been recognized as a crucial component of both women’s and infant’s health.

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  1. Lancaster Health Center, Lancaster, PA, USA

    Stephen D. Ratcliffe

  2. United Family Medicine Residency Program, Allina Health, Saint Paul, MN, USA

    Stephanie E. Rosener

  3. MAHEC Family Health Center at Biltmore, Mountain Area Health Education Center, Asheville, NC, USA

    Daniel J. Frayne

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  3. Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Audrey A. Paulman

  4. Department of Family Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

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Ratcliffe, S.D., Rosener, S.E., Frayne, D.J. (2020). Preconception Care. In: Paulman, P., Taylor, R., Paulman, A., Nasir, L. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0779-3_10-2

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