TABLE 1.

Preconception Health Recommendations (25)

1.	Individual responsibility across the life span	Each man and woman should be encouraged to have a reproductive life plan.
2.	Consumer awareness	Increase public awareness of the importance of preconception health behaviors and preconception care services by using information and tools appropriate across various ages.
3.	Preventive visits	Provide risk assessment and educational and health promotion counseling to all women of childbearing age to reduce reproductive risks and improve pregnancy outcomes.
4.	Interventions for identified risks	Increase the proportion of women who receive interventions as follow-up to preconception risk screening.
5.	Interconception care	Use the interconception period to provide additional intensive interventions to women who have had a previous adverse pregnancy outcome.
6.	Prepregnancy checkups	Offer, as a component of maternity care, one prepregnancy visit for couples and individuals who are planning pregnancy.
7.	Health coverage for low-income women	Increase public and private health insurance coverage for women with low incomes to improve access to preventive women’s health and preconception and interconception care.
8.	Public health programs and strategies	Integrate components of preconception health into existing public health and related programs.
9.	Research	Increase the evidence base and promote the use of evidence to improve preconception health.
10.	Monitoring improvements	Maximize public health surveillance and related research mechanisms to monitor preconception health.