When: October 29-31, 2007
Where: Oakland, California
This meeting focused on strategies for implementing the national recommendations to improve women's health, preconception care, and pregnancy outcomes. Key topics included:
- Integration of preconception care into clinical practice
- Promising practices from local public health departments and community-based organizations
- Research
- Reaching underserved and hard-to-reach women of reproductive age
- State-level approaches
- Medicaid and other public and private finance strategies
- Consumer outreach
The March of Dimes was one of the convening organizations for the summit.
To view abstracts and learn more about the program, click here.
