Overview

This book provides a practical, multidisciplinary approach to support a broad range of health professionals, social workers, public health workers and others tasked with providing health and care to young adults.  The continuum of life begins with the health and wellness of parents prior to conception, followed by embryonic and fetal development, and continues throughout life. Each person’s life stages prepare them for the next and determine their health outcome and wellbeing over time.  The text highlights the importance of promoting health throughout the lifespan, the influence of intergenerational health, and the concept of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in epigenetic processes and embryology. Authors underscore the importance of advancing health equity and lift up some of the ethical considerations in this work.  The authors explore specific interventions in four major categories: Lifestyle, Infections, Nutrition, and Contraception / Pregnancy Planning (LINC).  Preconception care is defined by the World Health Organization as the provision of biomedical, behavioural and social health interventions to women and couples before conception. Preconception care includes evidence-based interventions to improve health status, to reduce behaviours, individual and environmental factors that contribute to poor health outcomes.  This book offers readers evidence-based guidance regarding fertility awareness and sperm health, genetic counselling and lifestyle assessments, as well as mental wellbeing, alcohol, tobacco and pharmacotherapy, and specialist care for those with chronic conditions, including a review of medications. It also covers relevant infections, including HIV and the Zika virus, as well as different types of environmental and occupational exposure. The book employs a framework focusing on health promotion, the social determinants of health, and the science behind preconception care. Strategies for improving preconception and interconception health, including examples from around the globe, are described in detail.

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Author:   Jill Shawe ,  Eric A.P. Steegers ,  Sarah Verbiest
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9783030317522

ISBN 10:   3030317528
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   27 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Forward                              Merry-K Moos merryk_moos@med.unc.edu                 Introduction      Book objectives, structure, life course, social determinants of health and disease and core values (equity, ethics, autonomy, etc.)               Jill Shawe, Eric Steegers, Sarah Verbiest, Regine Steegers - Theunissen Correspondnce to: jill.shawe@plymouth.ac.uk  , e.a.p.steegers@erasmusmc.nl, sarahv@med.unc.edu Chapter 1 Definitions, background, history, challenges and opportunities (global perspectives)                   Sarah Verbiest,   Laurie Zephryin Chapter 2 Epigenetics, Embryology, Preconception science, Periconception, Sperm health Sam Schoenmakers, Regine Steegers-Theunissen, Kevin Sinclair Chapter 3 Lifestyle: behavioural health, alcohol, tobacco, substance use Jill Shawe [Editor] Chapter 4 Lifestyle: weight (obesity, overweight, underweight)   Annick Bogaerts, Roland Devlieger Chapter 5 Chronic conditions: risk assessment, diabetes, cardiac, RA, Thyroid, Cystic Fibrosis, Haematological, IBD, pharmacotherapy                Karl Neff, Kate Hunt Chapter 6 Infections: vaccinations, toxoplasmosis, listeriosis, CMV, STI’s , HIV/AIDS, Zika                Sarah Verbiest [Editor] Chapter 7 Nutrition: folic acid, nutrients    Regine Steegers-Theunissen Chapter 8 Occupational Environment: occupational hazards. Environmental Pollutants: exposures to toxins, pollution, water      Ageeth Rosman, Teus Brand, Tracey Woodruff Chapter 9 Social Environment: interpersonal violence, trafficking Adja Waelput, Hanneke de Graaf Chapter 10 Fertility awareness, maternal/paternal age, menstrual issues, reproductive life plan, birth spacing Ilse Delbaere Chapter 11 Genetic health, genetic counselling, consanguinity        Martina Cornel, Selina Goodman, Lidewij Henneman Chapter 12 Strategies for improving preconception health – examples from around the globe (China, Ethiopia, Europe, Canada, US, Bangladesh).     Salimah Walani, Regine Steegers – Theunissen, Kelle Moley Chapter 13 The Way Forward           Jill Shawe (UK), Eric Steegers (NL), Sarah Verbiest (US), Cheryl Robbins

Reviews

This book is appropriate for a wide audience, including health professionals, social workers, public health workers, and others engaged in providing information, services, and care pertaining to reproduction. To this broad, interdisciplinary mix, I would add students. ... This is a high-quality book that will be useful to the intended audience and adds importantly to the literature available on preconception health and care. (Lisa R Roberts, Doody's Book Reviews, October 16, 2020)

Author Information

Professor Jill Shawe is a clinical academic nurse/midwife in the Institute of Health & Community at the University of Plymouth, UK, with extensive experience of working in higher education and in clinical women’s health care.  Jill’s PhD focused on improving pregnancy outcomes for women with diabetes and she has developed a Programme of Research and Education in Periconception Care (PREPARE).  The programme aims to improve the health of women with medical conditions and their partners, before and between pregnancies and collaborates with colleagues across Europe.  Professor Eric A.P. Steegers is a gynaecologist and head of the department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. His current research interests relate to the pathophysiology of suboptimal embryonic development and malplacentation in the first trimester and the consequences for fetal and maternal health as well as disease in later life. New knowledge from translational research in these areas is being disseminated and translated in evidence-based local and national transmural preconception and early pregnancy programs for improved risk selection and general and personalized interventions with a special emphasis on high risk and socially deprived reproductive target groups.  Professor Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH is a public health social worker and the director of two Institutes at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her work focuses on research, coalition building, teaching, policy, equity and professional training to promote intergenerational approaches to improve health outcomes for families. She is the senior advisor to the national Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative, providing leadership across the US to advance preconception wellness. She recently edited a book titled Making Change Happen: Moving Life Course Theory into Action from APHA Press. 

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