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Preconception care in adolescents

Preconception Care is an intervention starting from adolescence until near conception. Preconception Care refers to biomedical interventions and social preventive behaviors which can improve healthy babies and healthy mothers. Interventions carried out during adolescence are more effective in reducing the occurrence of pregnancies untimely, unplanned pregnancies. Preconception Care program has not run optimally so far. The purpose of this literature study is to present the research findings on how Preconception Care interventions in adolescents. The method used is the study of the research findings on Preconception Care published in the last ten years (2009–2019) in national and international reputable literature sources indexed by Scopus, Elsiver, Proquest, Plos One, and Google Scholar database. The keywords of Preconception Care, Adolescent, AKI, and AKB are used to facilitate the search for literature. The results of the study show that Preconception Care has a powerful impact on women's health and is part of Continuum Care, including Preconception Care, Antenatal Care, Intranatal, and Post Natal. Preconception Care in adolescents has a good impact on the preconception period and can reduce maternal mortality (AKI) and infant mortality (AKB), thus, it is necessary to optimize Preconception Care on adolescents.

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