Book contents
- Textbook of Contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Textbook of Contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Contributors
- Section 1 Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Public Health Aspects and Prevention in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 1 Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- Chapter 2 European Laws on Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Different Policies regarding Access to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 3 The Main Threats to Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Principal Components of Good Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 4 The Principles and Roles of Sexuality Education
- Chapter 5 Sexual Reproductive Health
- Chapter 6 General Principles of Preventive Medicine in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 7 Screening in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 8 Reproductive Life Plan and Preconception Care, Including Vaccination
- Section 2 Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Section 3 Sexual Healthcare
- Section 4 Sexual and Reproductive Health Indicators and Policies
- Index
- References
Chapter 8 - Reproductive Life Plan and Preconception Care, Including Vaccination
from Section 1 - Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Public Health Aspects and Prevention in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2024
- Textbook of Contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Textbook of Contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Contributors
- Section 1 Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Public Health Aspects and Prevention in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 1 Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- Chapter 2 European Laws on Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Different Policies regarding Access to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 3 The Main Threats to Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Principal Components of Good Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 4 The Principles and Roles of Sexuality Education
- Chapter 5 Sexual Reproductive Health
- Chapter 6 General Principles of Preventive Medicine in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 7 Screening in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Chapter 8 Reproductive Life Plan and Preconception Care, Including Vaccination
- Section 2 Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Section 3 Sexual Healthcare
- Section 4 Sexual and Reproductive Health Indicators and Policies
- Index
- References
Summary
During the past decades increasing epidemiological, clinical and basic science research, including both human and animal studies in vitro and in vivo, have been carried out to understand better the role of single parameters of parental health in the health of the offspring and through generations. Research has aimed to define the most vulnerable periods of development in early life and the possible pathways by which unfavorable milieu during fragile growth phases might affect health in adult life. There is a convincing amount of evidence that parental nutritional conditions and environmental stressors during gametogenesis and first days and weeks of embryo development can increase the risk of hypertension, obesity, type 2 diabetes, atopic conditions, some cancers, neurological impairment and mental health problems in adulthood [1–5]. Both human and animal studies have been carried out to show how future mothers’ diet, body composition, metabolism and stress before and during conception and early embryonic development determines the diseases in their children’s future life and how these effects might last over several generations [1, 2, 4–9].
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024