The promotion of procreative health is, today, an important challenge in the face of worrying phenomena:

• the increase in conditions of sterility and infertility;
• inattention to preconception health;
• the widespread lack of esteem for parenthood both on a personal level (increasingly postponed search for the first pregnancy) and on a social level (absence of family support policies);
• the growing birth rate, with a fertility rate - in Italy - of 1.29 (ISTAT, 2019).

The conditions and causes of these phenomena are many and often - although not in an obvious way - related to each other. Lifestyles, cultural approaches, early onset of sexual activity, presence of pollutants in the living and working environment, nutritional deficiencies, lack of vaccination coverage, pathologies of the male or female genital system, increasingly postponed search for the first pregnancy, absence of housing and work policies, are significantly undermining Procreative Health.

The objectives of the Center for Procreative Health are:

• analysis of the conditions and causes, which can protect or damage Procreative Health;
• monitoring and implementation of intervention strategies for the promotion of Procreative Health and the prevention of conditions responsible for sterility/infertility in couples and birth rate with an interdisciplinary approach;
• support of decision-makers in intervention policies in favour of Procreative Health and the birth rate.

The promotion of procreative health is today an important challenge in the face of worrying phenomena: 

• the increase in conditions of sterility and infertility;
• inattention to preconception health;
• the widespread lack of esteem for parenthood both on a personal level (increasingly postponed search for the first pregnancy) and on a social level (absence of family support policies);
• the growing birth rate, with a fertility rate - in Italy - of 1.29 (ISTAT, 2019).

The conditions and causes of these phenomena are many and often - although not in an obvious way - related to each other. Lifestyles, cultural approaches, early onset of sexual activity, presence of pollutants in the living and working environment, nutritional deficiencies, lack of vaccination coverage, pathologies of the male or female genital system, increasingly postponed search for the first pregnancy, absence of housing and work policies, are significantly undermining Procreative Health