Prevention of pregnancy (contraception) and preparation for pregnancy (preconception
care) are services that most people need during their reproductive life course. Despite …

About one-third of women of reproductive age are obese, predisposing both mother and
baby to unfavourable pregnancy outcomes and initiating an intergenerational cycle of …

OBJECTIVE Better preconception metabolic and nutritional health are hypothesized to
promote gestational normoglycemia and reduce preterm birth, but evidence supporting …

Preparing for a healthy pregnancy, preconception care, should be the norm and a more
actively managed step in primary care. Decades of improvement in the quality of maternity …

Objective To present the first national‐level report card on the state of women's
preconception health in England. Design Cross‐sectional population‐based study. Setting …

We aimed to examine the impact of a preconception pro-inflammatory diet on gestational
diabetes mellitus (GDM) using singleton pregnancy data from the Japan Environment and …

Background Maternal obesity increases the risk of adverse long-term health outcomes in
mother and child including childhood obesity. We aimed to investigate the association …

Reproductive health education is crucial to ensure young people understand their
reproductive system and can make informed decisions about their sexual lives and fertility …

Initiatives to optimise preconception health are emerging following growing recognition that
this may improve the health and well-being of women and men of reproductive age and …

In this article, we are concerned with the expanded public health interest in the
“preconception period” as a window of opportunity for intervention to improve long-term …