Scientific Information

This section of the website will provide additional scientific information about preconception care and similar subjects. Here, you will be able to find important publications to get a more detailed description of what preconception care exactly is, the benefits of preconception care and by what means institutions strive to achieve preconception care for all.

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.