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.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR); Atlanta (GA): 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. 2006 Apr 21 [cited 2013 Jan 15] 55(RR06);1-23. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5506a1.htm