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3330.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Speakers in this session will discuss the scientific basis for preconception care and present a set of proven components of preconception care, supported by strong evidence of effectiveness if delivered before pregnancy. Discussion will also include ways in which public health can assure the systematic delivery of proven interventions for women and couple who have intended births. The Perinatal Periods of Risk approach will be described as a means for identifying areas where intervention would yield the highest gain in reducing feto-infant mortality. Finally, the speakers will discuss recommendations for preconception health and health care recently developed by a select panel convened by CDC. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Identifying a set of proven components of preconception care, supported by strong evidence of effectiveness if delivered before pregnancy 2. List 3 challenges for promoting preconception health and preconception care. 3. Understand findings from recent analyses of national fetal and infant death and live birth data for the U.S. using the PPOR approach to examine feto-infant mortality at national, state and local levels 4. Describe the roles and responsibilities of individuals, clinicians, public health practitioners and researchers in improving preconception health | |||
| Hani Atrash, MD, MPH Karen Bell, MPH | |||
| Hani Atrash, MD, MPH Kay Johnson, MPH, EdM | |||
Defining the Content of Preconception Care ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Hani Atrash, MD, MPH, Sam Posner, PhD, Kay Johnson, MPH, EdM | |||
| Promoting Preconception Health as a Bill of Right Janis Biermann, MS, Christopher S. Parker, MPH, MPA | |||
| PPOR data suggest growing demand for preconception health care Magda G. Peck, ScD, William M. Sappenfield, MD MPH, Carol S. Gilbert, MS, Jennifer Skala, MEd | |||
| Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Healthcare Sam Posner, PhD, Kay Johnson, MPH, EdM, Christopher S. Parker, MPH, MPA, Janis Biermann, MS, Hani Atrash, MD, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Maternal and Child Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Community Health Workers SPIG; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
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