A New Focus on Preconception Healthcare and the Life Course Theory of Health
Received Date: Mar 02, 2018 / Accepted Date: Mar 13, 2018 / Published Date: Mar 20, 2018
Abstract
Preconception healthcare (PCHC) is a set of prevention and health promotion interventions to reduce reproductiveaged women’s health risks before conception and improve birth outcomes. This timelier intervention is underutilized in the United States (U.S.). The current health framework integrates the Fetal Origin of Adult Disease (FOAD) theory, the Developmental Origin of Health and Disease (DOHaD) and the Life Course Theory of health (LCT). This continuous integrative health framework emphasizes the important role of PCHC on birth outcomes and on reducing the burden of adult chronic diseases in the population
Keywords: Preconception healthcare; Fetal origin of adult diseases; Life course theory of health; Adult chronic diseases
Citation: Lammers C (2018) A New Focus on Preconception Healthcare and the Life Course Theory of Health. J Comm Pub Health Nursing 4:216. Doi: 10.4172/2471-9846.1000216
Copyright: © 2018 Lammers C. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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