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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Pregnancy Health: Community-Wide Campaigns to Promote the Use of Folic Acid Supplements

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: June 2004

Workgroups: Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends community-wide education campaigns to encourage people who could become pregnant to take folic acid supplements. Folic acid before and during pregnancy can help prevent neural tube defects in babies. Neural tube defects affect a baby’s brain, spine, or spinal cord. 

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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Increase the proportion of women of childbearing age who get enough folic acid — MICH‑12
Baseline only

Suggested Citation

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2004). Pregnancy Health: Community-Wide Campaigns to Promote the Use of Folic Acid Supplements. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/pregnancy-health-community-wide-campaigns-promote-use-folic-acid-supplements