The report provides recommendations to improve both preconception health and care with the goal of improving the health of women and couples, before conception of a first or subsequent pregnancy. The 10 recommendations are based on a review of published research and the opinions of specialists from the CDC/ATSDR Preconception Care Work Group and the Select Panel on Preconception Care.
Johnson K, Posner S, Biermann J, Cordero J, Atrash H, Parker C, Boulet S, and Curtis M. Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care --- United States: A Report of the CDC/ATSDR Preconception Care Work Group and the Select Panel on Preconception Care. MMWR [Internet]. 2006 Apr 21 [cited 2013 Jan 15];55(RR06);1–23. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5506a1.htm