What are Preconception and Interconception Health?
These terms refer to the state of a woman’s health before and between pregnancies. Preconception and interconception health care is a set of interventions to identify and modify biomedical, behavioral and social risks to a woman’s health or pregnancy outcome through prevention and management. The goal of the care is two-fold: improve the woman’s health and help reduce health risks to her future baby. (adapted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Recommendations to Improve Preconception Care and Health Care at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/preconception/whatispreconception.htm, and the March of Dimes at: www.marchofdimes.com/) Maternal and Child Health staff has collaborated with many partners to sponsor four annual Preconception Conferences, the most recent are archived below.
