Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 156-158 , July 2006

Preconception health: Where to from here?

  • Merry-K. Moos, RN, FNP, MPH, FAAN

      Affiliations

    • Ms. Moos, a long time proponent of preconceptional health promotion, is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served on the CDC’s Select Panel on Preconceptional Health.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Merry-K Moos, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Campus #7516, 214 MacNider Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7516.

Received 16 September 2005 ,Accepted 1 March 2006.

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PII: S1049-3867(06)00045-4

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.03.004

Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 156-158 , July 2006