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  • 19 - Public health policies relating to obesity in childbearing women

  • from Section 5 - Management and policy
  • Edited by Matthew W. Gillman, Lucilla Poston, King's College London
  • Book:
    Maternal Obesity
    Published online:
    05 August 2012
    Print publication:
    19 July 2012, pp 237-244

  • Summary

    This chapter presents the national public health policies and programs related to helping women to conceive at a healthy weight, gain weight appropriately during pregnancy, and limit weight retention postpartum. Guidance on implementing weight gain guidelines was developed for prenatal care providers after the release of the 1990 Gestational Weight Gain (GWG) Guidelines. The policy framework for healthy weight gain during pregnancy exists and is supported by both expert committee reports and practice guidelines in the US. A postpartum visit was less likely among women with lower use of or access to health care. The Institute of Medicine/National Research Council (IOM/NRC) committee that recently revised the guidelines for GWG made recommendations that, if fully implemented, would represent a radical change in care offered to women of childbearing age, potentially leading to a reduction in obesity among women of childbearing age.