The clinical content of preconception care: preconception care for special populations.
Women with disabilities, immigrant and refugee women, and cancer survivors may have medical, psychosocial, and/or cultural issues. Appropriate preconception guidance and management of reproductive planning and preconception issues is essential to ensure that women in these groups can make informed reproductive decisions and achieve optimal reproductive outcomes.
Ruhl
Catherine
C
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, Washington, DC 20036, USA. cruhl@awhonn.org
Moran
Barbara
B
D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016742:Preconception Care; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk; D012036:Refugees