Teus Brand
Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases, Netherlands
Biography
Teus Brand is an occupational Physician working in The Netherlands. He developed expertise in finding and evaluating literature on the adverse effects of working conditions on pregnancy outcomes and making the information available for health professionals in every day practice. Therefore, a Dutch guideline on this topic has been written in 2007 as well as a part of a publication of the Health Council of The Netherlands on preconception care. Recently, the guideline has been updated. And in the new preconception indication list, the information on the effects of preconceptional exposure of hazardous working conditions will soon become available to health professionals involved in obstetric care such as general practitioners, midwifes, gynecologists and occupational physicians.