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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:14:49 +0800 (CST)
From: Ivy Shiue <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Public Health Officials Emphasizing 'Preconception Care' Message for Women of Childbearing Age
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  When reading this article, I'd say it's both important for female and male to be aware! (See why male should be kind to and to also take care of female) It shouldnt be only half of the policy to female to well-perceived their care on potential pregnancy.
   
   
   
   
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  Pregnancy & Childbirth | Public Health Officials Emphasizing 'Preconception Care' Message for Women of Childbearing Age
  [Nov 28, 2006] 
   
        Some public health officials are "recast[ing]" their message of prenatal care by adding what they call "preconception care," which urges all women of childbearing age to maintain physical and emotional health well in advance of pregnancy to reduce the risk of preventable birth defects and other complications, the New York Times reports (Rabin, New York Times, 11/28). CDC in the April 21 edition of its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published preconception care recommendations. Preconception care, which takes place in multiple physician visits, involves "interventions that aim to identify and modify biomedical, behavioral and social risks to a woman's health or pregnancy outcome through prevention and management, emphasizing those factors which must be acted on before conception or early in pregnancy to have maximal impact," according to the recommendations (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 5/9). Although the recommendations were "criticized in some
 quarters for treating all women as though they were eternally 'prepregnant,'" some experts say that preparing for a healthy pregnancy can require behavioral changes that take months. Pregnant women usually do not have their first prenatal visit until 10 weeks to 12 weeks after conception, doctors say. "If a birth defect is going to happen, it's already happened," Peter Bernstein, a maternal fetal medicine specialist at Montefiore Medical Center who helped write the CDC recommendations said, adding, "The most important doctor's visit may be the one that takes place before a pregnancy is conceived." The recommendations highlight the importance of family planning and child spacing and encourage young people to develop a "reproductive life plan," the Times reports. According to the Times, physicians have been recommending preconception care for decades but "it has never really caught on." The issue has taken on "added urgency" because of higher rates of unplanned pregnancies
 and low birthweights, the Times reports. In addition, the U.S. obesity rate and number of women delaying pregnancy continues to rise, meaning that women are more likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes or prediabetes when they become pregnant, according to the Times. Some health providers say that pregnancy planning and contraceptive use are essential in preconception care and urge all doctors to counsel women of childbearing age about the possibility of pregnancy. "It's not like we have an injection we can give someone" to prepare her for pregnancy, Hani Atrash, associate director for program development at CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, said. "Some of the interventions, like weight management, need time to happen," Atrash said, adding, "What we're actually talking about ... is women's health" (New York Times, 11/28).


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<DIV class=title>  <div><FONT color=#0000bf>When reading this article, I'd say it's both important for female and male to be aware! (See why male should&nbsp;be kind to and to also take care of female) It shouldnt be only half of the policy to female to well-perceived their care on potential pregnancy.</FONT></div>  <div><FONT color=#0000bf></FONT>&nbsp;</div>  <div><FONT color=#0000bf></FONT>&nbsp;</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Daily Women's Health Policy</div>  <META content="Daily Reproductive Health Report" name=Topics.sup></DIV>  <DIV class=indexheaders>Pregnancy &amp; Childbirth&nbsp;|&nbsp;Public Health Officials Emphasizing 'Preconception Care' Message for Women of Childbearing Age</DIV>  <DIV class=bodytext><FONT size=-1>[Nov 28, 2006]</FONT> </DIV>  <DIV class=bodytext>&nbsp;</DIV>  <div class=bodytext>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some public health officials are "recast[ing]" their message of prenatal care by adding what they call
 "preconception care," which urges all women of childbearing age to maintain physical and emotional health well in advance of pregnancy <STRONG>to reduce the risk of preventable birth defects and other complications</STRONG>, the <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/health/28natal.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1164718938-Ixgp94TqvxBA0/vJy0q6pA" target=_new><CITE><FONT color=#394b6b>New York Times</FONT></CITE></A> reports (Rabin, <CITE>New York Times</CITE>, 11/28). <A href="http://www.cdc.gov/" target=_new><FONT color=#394b6b>CDC</FONT></A> in the April 21 edition of its <A href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5506a1.htm" target=_new><CITE><FONT color=#394b6b>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report</FONT></CITE></A> published preconception care <A href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/preconception/documents/recommendation%20summary.pdf" target=_new><FONT color=#394b6b>recommendations</FONT></A>. Preconception care, which takes place in
 multiple physician visits, involves "interventions that aim to identify and modify biomedical, behavioral and social risks to a woman's health or pregnancy outcome through prevention and management, emphasizing those factors which must be acted on before conception or early in pregnancy to have maximal impact," according to the recommendations (<A href="http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=2&amp;DR_ID=37109" target=_new><CITE><FONT color=#394b6b>Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report</FONT></CITE></A>, 5/9). Although the recommendations were "criticized in some quarters for treating all women as though they were eternally 'prepregnant,'" some experts say that preparing for a healthy pregnancy can require behavioral changes that take months. Pregnant women usually do not have their first prenatal visit until 10 weeks to 12 weeks after conception, doctors say. "If a birth defect is going to happen, it's already happened," Peter Bernstein, a
 maternal fetal medicine specialist at <A href="http://www.montefiore.org/" target=_new><FONT color=#394b6b>Montefiore Medical Center</FONT></A> who helped write the CDC recommendations said, adding, "The most important doctor's visit may be the one that takes place before a pregnancy is conceived." The recommendations highlight the importance of family planning and child spacing and encourage young people to develop a "reproductive life plan," the <CITE>Times</CITE> reports. According to the <CITE>Times</CITE>, physicians have been recommending preconception care for decades but "it has never really caught on."<CITE> </CITE>The issue has taken on "added urgency" because of higher rates of unplanned pregnancies and low birthweights, the <CITE>Times</CITE> reports. In addition, the U.S. obesity rate and number of women delaying pregnancy continues to rise, meaning that women are more likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes or prediabetes when they become pregnant,
 according to the <CITE>Times</CITE>. Some health providers say that pregnancy planning and contraceptive use are essential in preconception care and urge all doctors to counsel women of childbearing age about the possibility of pregnancy. "It's not like we have an injection we can give someone" to prepare her for pregnancy, Hani Atrash, associate director for program development at CDC's <A href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/" target=_new><FONT color=#394b6b>National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities</FONT></A>, said. "Some of the interventions, like weight management, need time to happen," Atrash said, adding, "What we're actually talking about ... is women's health" (<CITE>New York Times</CITE>, 11/28).</div><BR><BR><DIV><FONT color=red><FONT color=#000000>  <DIV><FONT color=red><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>Ivy Shiue, </STRONG>MSc student&nbsp;<BR>Fax: +886-2-28218165<BR>Mobile: +886-910028979&nbsp; </FONT></FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=red><FONT
 color=#000000>YAHOO: ivyshiue, Skype: <U>poisonsacred</U><BR>MSN: <A href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target=_blank _><FONT color=#003399>[log in to unmask]</FONT></A></FONT></FONT></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=red><FONT color=#000000>Add: IHP, Institute of Public Health, NYMU<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NO155, Sec. 2 Li-Nong St. Taipei, 112, Taiwan&nbsp; </FONT></FONT></DIV>  <DIV><EM><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=blue><STRONG>Nous ne cessions d'y croire...</STRONG></FONT></EM></DIV>  <DIV><EM><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=blue><STRONG>We've never stopped believing...</STRONG></FONT></EM></DIV></FONT></FONT></DIV><p>&#32;___________________________________________________ <br> 您的生活即時通 － 溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ <br> http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/
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