"Preconception Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An organized and comprehensive program of health care that identifies and reduces a woman's reproductive risks before conception through risk assessment, health promotion, and interventions. Preconception care programs may be designed to include the male partner in providing counseling and educational information in preparation for fatherhood, such as genetic counseling and testing, financial and family planning, etc. This concept is different from PRENATAL CARE, which occurs during pregnancy.
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D016742
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.775 N02.421.143.620.620 N02.421.585.775 N02.421.920.660
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Preconception Care" by people in Profiles.
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Uptake and Persistence of Safer Conception Strategies Among South African Women Planning for Pregnancy. AIDS Behav. 2024 Dec; 28(12):4029-4039.
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Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevalence, Partner Notification, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Risk Perception in a Cohort of Women Completing Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening as Part of a Safer Conception Study. Sex Transm Dis. 2024 Jun 01; 51(6):431-436.
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Predictors of preconception health knowledge among Canadian women: A nationwide cross-sectional study. J Clin Nurs. 2023 Aug; 32(15-16):4843-4851.
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Medical, behavioural and social preconception and interconception risk factors among pregnancy planning and recently pregnant Canadian women. Fam Med Community Health. 2022 09; 10(3).
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The Effect of Calcium Supplementation on Body Weight Before and During Pregnancy in Women Enrolled in the WHO Calcium and Preeclampsia Trial. Food Nutr Bull. 2020 09; 41(3):332-342.
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Maternal traditional dietary pattern and antiretroviral treatment exposure are associated with neonatal size and adiposity in urban, black South Africans. Br J Nutr. 2018 09; 120(5):557-566.
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Intervention strategies to improve nutrition and health behaviours before conception. Lancet. 2018 05 05; 391(10132):1853-1864.
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Participant recruitment and retention in longitudinal preconception randomized trials: lessons learnt from the Calcium And Pre-eclampsia (CAP) trial. Trials. 2017 Oct 26; 18(1):500.
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Pre-pregnancy community-based intervention for couples in Malaysia: application of intervention mapping. BMC Public Health. 2016 11 17; 16(1):1167.
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Interventions to prevent maternal obesity before conception, during pregnancy, and post partum. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2017 01; 5(1):65-76.