Scientific Information

The publications below give a more detailed description of preconception care, its benefits and challenges:

Publications by World Health Organization

• Preconception care to reduce maternal and childhood mortality and morbidity
  Meeting report and packages of interventions: WHO HQ, February 2012.
• Preconception Care powerpoint slides

Dutch Health Council

• Preconception Care: for a good beginning (Dutch Health Council, 2007)

March of Dimes

• Controlling Birth Defects: Reducing the Hidden Toll of Dying and Disabled Children in Low-Income Countries - Disease Control Priority Project, December 2008.