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Second National Summit on Preconception Health and Health Care: Advancing the Health of Women and Infants Before, Between and Beyond Pregnancy
Oakland, CA
Purpose: The Second National Summit on Improving Preconception Health and Health Care will focus on strategies for implementing the national recommendations published by CDC. The First National Summit on Preconception Care in June 2005, hosted by 35 national partner organizations and 22 CDC program units, brought together more than 400 participants from across the country to discuss innovations and opportunities to promote the health of women before, during, and beyond pregnancy and to assure the health of the next generation. Since that time, national recommendations have stimulated debate and action across the country. The Second National Summit will capture the momentum of the past two years and accelerate progress in improving the health of women and infants.
Conveners: The Summit is hosted by the Preconception Care Council of California, March of Dimes California Chapter, California Department of Public Health – Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division, Sutter Health, Kaiser Permanente, University of California at Berkeley, Alameda County Healthy Start Program, and the Los Angeles Preconception Care Project, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the CDC Preconception Care Initiative Steering Committee, which includes representatives from CDC, HRSA, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), CityMatCH, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), and the March of Dimes.
Audience: This Second National Summit on Improving Preconception Health and Health Care will bring together leaders from public health, clinical medicine, and community-based organizations representing all areas of the country.
Content: The content of this conference will build upon the work of the CDC and the Select Panel on Preconception Care, as well as the experience from the Preconception Care Council of California and the First National Summit on Preconception Care. There is widespread interest in and action toward implementation of the national recommendations for improving preconception health and health care. In this year, 2007, much can be learned from bringing people together to cross-fertilize promising practices and research results.
Key topics will include:
- Strategies and tools for integrating preconception care into clinical practice.
- Promising practices from local public health departments and community-based organizations for integrating preconception health into public health systems.
- Research on preconception health promotion and education.
- Approaches for reaching underserved and hard to reach women of reproductive age.
- State-level approaches for integrating preconception health into Title V MCH, family planning, WIC and other public health services and systems.
- Medicaid and other public and private finance strategies to support and sustain preconception health and health care.
- Strategies and tools for outreach to consumers on preconception health.
Please click on the links further down the page to view a Summit agenda.
Authors are encouraged to pre-register and to attend the meeting regardless of decisions on their abstract.
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