TY - JOUR
AU - C. Nypaver
AU - A. Yeager
A1 - 
AB - Optimizing the overall health of individuals prior to pregnancy can improve both pregnancy and lifelong health outcomes. Despite extremely high financial expenditure on birth in the United States, maternal and infant mortality rates continue to rise. Moreover, significant racial and ethnic disparities persist in perinatal health outcomes. Preconception care, or health care provided before or between pregnancies, has the capacity to meet these challenges. Preconception care can be integrated into every health care visit, including visits with primary care, reproductive health, and mental health care clinicians. Increasing awareness among clinicians of the benefits of preconception care and equipping them with innovative strategies to implement this care into practice, the number of people receiving optimal care could be increased. Recent innovations in preconception care include group care, health applications (apps), reminders in electronic health records, social marketing campaigns, social media movements, community-based partnerships, health care policy and access, and improving public and clinician education on preconception health topics. Ultimately, improving preconception health is best done in partnership between the consumer and clinician. Midwives, whose care is person-centered and partnership-focused, are well positioned to champion the innovation and implementation of equitable preconception care. The purpose of this State of the Science review, therefore, is to synthesize the literature on recent evidence-based innovations that may be used to improve preconception health and counseling.
AD - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
AN - 39104297
BT - J Midwifery Womens Health
C5 - Healthcare Disparities
CP - 6
DA - Nov-Dec
DO - 10.1111/jmwh.13681
DP - NLM
ET - 20240806
IS - 6
JF - J Midwifery Womens Health
LA - eng
N2 - Optimizing the overall health of individuals prior to pregnancy can improve both pregnancy and lifelong health outcomes. Despite extremely high financial expenditure on birth in the United States, maternal and infant mortality rates continue to rise. Moreover, significant racial and ethnic disparities persist in perinatal health outcomes. Preconception care, or health care provided before or between pregnancies, has the capacity to meet these challenges. Preconception care can be integrated into every health care visit, including visits with primary care, reproductive health, and mental health care clinicians. Increasing awareness among clinicians of the benefits of preconception care and equipping them with innovative strategies to implement this care into practice, the number of people receiving optimal care could be increased. Recent innovations in preconception care include group care, health applications (apps), reminders in electronic health records, social marketing campaigns, social media movements, community-based partnerships, health care policy and access, and improving public and clinician education on preconception health topics. Ultimately, improving preconception health is best done in partnership between the consumer and clinician. Midwives, whose care is person-centered and partnership-focused, are well positioned to champion the innovation and implementation of equitable preconception care. The purpose of this State of the Science review, therefore, is to synthesize the literature on recent evidence-based innovations that may be used to improve preconception health and counseling.
PY - 2024
SN - 1526-9523 (Print); 1526-9523
SP - 897
EP - 905+
ST - Innovations in Preconception Care: Optimizing Health for All Individuals
T1 - Innovations in Preconception Care: Optimizing Health for All Individuals
T2 - J Midwifery Womens Health
TI - Innovations in Preconception Care: Optimizing Health for All Individuals
U1 - Healthcare Disparities
U3 - 10.1111/jmwh.13681
VL - 69
VO - 1526-9523 (Print); 1526-9523
Y1 - 2024
ER -