“…Guided by it, public health units implemented a series of province-wide strategies to promote preconception health across Canada, including awareness campaigns, resource releases, and education classes (Best Start Resource Centre, 2009a). Also, some research has been conducted to determine the degree to which preconception health care has been perceived by different target groups in Canada, such as regional childbearing-aged residents (Best Start Resource Centre, 2009b;Einarson and Koren, 2006;Tough et al, 2007), women at high risk (Huynh et al, 2012;Lipscombe et al, 2011;Murphy et al, 2010), and health care providers (Ng and Newbold, 2011). However, most of these studies do not pay attention to ethnic minority populations, and as such, very little is known about the viewpoints of these population groups in relation to reproductive health issues.…”