Preconceptional health promotion: a health education opportunity for all women.
Women Health
; 15(3): 55-68, 1989.
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| ID: mdl-2815790
ABSTRACT
PIP: Efforts to prevent perinatal mortality and morbidity are traditionally directed a the pregnant woman. It is during the prenatal period that the mother's health status is closely monitored; her exposure to substances known to be harmful to the fetus is assessed, and intensive patient education on behaviors likely to benefit the unborn child is offered. Unfortunately, the initiation of prenatal care may already be too late to prevent spontaneous abortions, congenital anomalies, and some causes of low birthweight. Until routine prepregnancy care is available to all women of childbearing age, many opportunities for the primary prevention of poor reproductive outcomes will be lost. This paper describes the rationale for prepregnancy or preconceptional counseling and the specific purpose it should serve. A model program providing such services is described, and findings for a low socioeconomic population involved in the model program are given. (Author's).
Palabras clave
Abortion, Spontaneous--prevention and control; Biology; Birth Weight; Body Weight; Clinic Activities; Counseling; Delivery Of Health Care; Diseases; Education; Family Planning; Family Planning Programs; Health; Health Education; Health Services; Low Birth Weight--prevention and control; Maternal Health Services; Maternal-child Health Services; Medicine; Models, Theoretical; Neonatal Diseases And Abnormalities--prevention and control; Organization And Administration; Physiology; Pregnancy Complications--prevention and control; Preventive Medicine; Primary Health Care; Program Activities; Program Design; Programs; Reproduction; Research Methodology
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Complicaciones del Embarazo
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Prevención Primaria
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Educación en Salud
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Límite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Women Health
Año:
1989
Tipo del documento:
Article