Scientific Information

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Selected publications:

• Preconception Care and Genetic Screening: A Global Review and Strategic Perspectives for Implementation in Bulgaria (Children, 2025)
• Preconception Checklist: Preconception care for mother and baby (FIGO, 2024)
• Preconception Health 1  -  Before the beginning: nutrition and lifestyle in the preconception period and its importance for future health (Lancet 2018)
• Preconception Health 2  - Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences (Lancet 2018)
• Preconception Health 3 - Intervention strategies to improve nutrition and health behaviours before conception (Lancet 2018)
• Preconception care policy, guidelines, recommendations and services across six European countries: Belgium (Flanders), Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom (European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care, 2014).
• Preconception care to reduce maternal and childhood mortality and morbidity Meeting report and packages of interventions. (WHO HQ, 2012)
• Controlling Birth Defects: Reducing the Hidden Toll of Dying and Disabled Children in Low-Income Countries (March of Dimes, 2008)
• Preconception Care: for a good beginning (Health Council of the Netherlands, 2007)