For decades, progress in neonatology, obstetrics and perinatology led to major reductions in fetal, newborn and maternal morbidity and mortality.

The goal of an international meeting on preconception care is to promote preconception visit as a part of the first line care. It is also to increase people's awareness (users, medical providers, political decision makers...) of the salience of a structured preconception consultation.

ONE (Birth and Childhood office, French-speaking part of Belgium) strives to meet the targets of child protection, child welfare and maternal protection. Therefore the Office has a substantial role in achieving these goals and can be considered a natural leader for this European congress.

The GGOLFB (Belgian Association of French speaking Gynaecologists and Obstetricians), greatly aware of ethical debates about preconception care, has agreed to integrate its annual meeting about ethical problems in Gynecology and Obstetrics into this congress.

Congress objectives :

• to introduce preconception care into primary care services in Europe
• to give information about preconception care interventions to medical and psychosocial providers
• to increase public awareness of the medical salience of preconception health services in the prevention field
• to sustain peoples' involvement in this important medical matter

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