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This narrative review synthesizes evidence across multiple occupational exposure categories\u2014antineoplastic agents, high-level disinfectants (HLDs), sterilants, and work-organization factors\u2014and proposes an integrated, clinically operational framework for preconception counseling, pregnancy-sensitive risk stratification, exposure-control verification, and reproductive health surveillance among women healthcare workers. Methods: A structured narrative literature search was conducted across PubMed\/MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, and Embase from database inception through January 2025 and updated in March 2026. The review was guided by a Population\u2013Exposure\u2013Comparison\u2013Outcome (PECO) framework and structured using Search\u2013Appraisal\u2013Synthesis\u2013Analysis (SALSA) principles and the Scale for the Assessment of Narrative Review Articles (SANRA). Evidence quality was summarized using a modified hierarchy-of-evidence classification provided as a reader aid. This narrative review employed structured transparency tools but does not claim the methodological status of a systematic review. Quantitative meta-analytic pooling was not performed owing to substantial heterogeneity across study designs, exposure assessment methods, and outcome definitions; findings were synthesized narratively by exposure category. Results: The strongest and most consistent evidence was identified for occupational exposure to antineoplastic agents, which has been associated with spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, congenital abnormalities, impaired fecundability, and selected cancer-related concerns. HLDs and sterilants represent exposure categories warranting precautionary attention, with some evidence suggesting possible adverse effects on fecundability and early pregnancy maintenance; however, findings are considerably more heterogeneous, context-dependent, and reliant on self-reported exposure assessment than those for antineoplastic agents. Broader workplace factors, including shift work, prolonged working hours, physical workload, and mixed exposures, may further contribute to reproductive risk. The synthesis supports task-specific occupational history taking, exposure-control verification, and pregnancy-sensitive risk stratification. Conclusions: This review provides a multi-exposure, clinically operational framework that bridges occupational hygiene evidence with reproductive healthcare delivery, offering practical decision-support tools for clinicians managing women healthcare workers during preconception, pregnancy, and lactation. The framework includes structured occupational history-taking questions, a clinical decision pathway with evidence-tier classification, and a prevention matrix linking exposure sources to workplace controls and clinical actions. Integrating task-specific occupational history taking into routine reproductive care may improve detection of preventable workplace risks and support timely accommodation, while clinicians should calibrate recommendation strength to the underlying evidence quality for each exposure category.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm15124651","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,16]],"date-time":"2026-06-16T00:49:01Z","timestamp":1781570941000},"page":"4651","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Occupational Reproductive Health Risks Among Women Healthcare Workers: A Narrative Review for Clinical Surveillance, Preconception Counseling, and Prevention"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-6069-6340","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Oh-Hyun","family":"Kwon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Safety Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-3654-1036","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gyu-Jin","family":"Sim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Safety Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-4511-6977","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sun-Haeng","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju 28644, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Izadi, N., Aminian, O., Ghafourian, K., Aghdaee, A.H., and Samadanian, S. 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