Designing family-centred preconception services

In order to support women and their partners to improve their health before pregnancy, we need to be able to identify who is likely to become pregnant within a given timeframe so that interventions can be targeted accordingly. There is no agreed, predictive tool currently available to do this. This presentation will describe the different ways of conceptualising the preconception population and how these populations can be identified to inform intervention delivery and development. We will overview what is known about the preferences of women and men with regards to preconception health services, with a particular focus on digital innovations, and will discuss how the effectiveness of preconception health interventions can be evaluated to contribute to the evidence base.