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Advancing preconception health in the United States: strategies for change
In January 2015, the US Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative (PCHHC) established a new national vision that all women and men of reproductive age will achieve optimal health and wellness, fostering a healthy life course for them and any children they may have. Achieving this vision presen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5098485/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27646555 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03009734.2016.1204395 |
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author | Verbiest, Sarah McClain, Erin Woodward, Suzanne |
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description | In January 2015, the US Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative (PCHHC) established a new national vision that all women and men of reproductive age will achieve optimal health and wellness, fostering a healthy life course for them and any children they may have. Achieving this vision presents both challenges and opportunities. This manuscript describes the reasons why the US needs to prioritize preconception health as well as its efforts historically to advance change. The authors share lessons from past work and current strategies in the US to reach this ambitious goal. |
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spelling | pubmed-50984852016-11-18 Advancing preconception health in the United States: strategies for change Verbiest, Sarah McClain, Erin Woodward, Suzanne Ups J Med Sci Original Articles In January 2015, the US Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative (PCHHC) established a new national vision that all women and men of reproductive age will achieve optimal health and wellness, fostering a healthy life course for them and any children they may have. Achieving this vision presents both challenges and opportunities. This manuscript describes the reasons why the US needs to prioritize preconception health as well as its efforts historically to advance change. The authors share lessons from past work and current strategies in the US to reach this ambitious goal. Taylor & Francis 2016-11 2016-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5098485/ /pubmed/27646555 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03009734.2016.1204395 Text en © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Verbiest, Sarah McClain, Erin Woodward, Suzanne Advancing preconception health in the United States: strategies for change |
title | Advancing preconception health in the United States: strategies for change |
title_full | Advancing preconception health in the United States: strategies for change |
title_fullStr | Advancing preconception health in the United States: strategies for change |
title_full_unstemmed | Advancing preconception health in the United States: strategies for change |
title_short | Advancing preconception health in the United States: strategies for change |
title_sort | advancing preconception health in the united states: strategies for change |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5098485/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27646555 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03009734.2016.1204395 |
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