Title: IDHS: Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
Headings: Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
Inter-conceptional Care -Prenatal care
Definition of Prenatal Care
Rationale for Prenatal Care:
Goals of Prenatal Care:
Objectives of Prenatal Care
Major Recommendations for quality Prenatal Care- All pregnant women:
Components of Prenatal Care.
Early and Continuing Risk Assessment

Content: Should be screened for HbsAg before delivery. Components of Prenatal Care. Prenatal care involves the management of medical, nutritional. Psycho-social, and educational needs of the patient and her family. This is reevaluated at regularly scheduled intervals, and revised in accordance with the progress of the pregnancy. In 1989 the US Public Health Service identified three basic components of prenatal care, they are: Early and continuing risk assessment, including laboratory testing
Health promotion, including patient education
Medical and psycho-social assessment, intervention and follow-up care. Early and Continuing Risk Assessment
Prenatal care is more effective when the first visit takes place at 6-8 weeks gestation, and not delayed until the second or third trimester. The prenatal visit is a comprehensive process of assessing historical data, laboratory findings, medical, social and obstetrical risk indicators. One important goal of the prenatal visit is to prevent pre-term births which is the chief cause of infant mortality.