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- Title
WIC's big benefits.
- Authors
Klilsch, Michael
- Abstract
This article focuses on federal government programme for women, infant and children in the U.S. When researchers performed a meta-analysis of 17 studies conducted between 1971 and 1988 that examined the association between low birth weight and a variety of measures, including prenatal WIC receipt, they found that recipients were 25% less likely than comparable non- recipients to have a low-birth-weight baby and 44% less likely to have a very low birth weight baby. The investigators then calculated that prenatal WIC services averted expenditures of $1.19 billion in the first year after delivery, including $364 million in federal Medicaid expenses and $298 million in state Medicaid expenses. In contrast, one year of WIC services costs $389 million. Thus, according to the researchers, one year of WIC expenditures may yield net societal savings as great as $800 million.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC health; WOMEN; CHILDREN; HEALTH planning; BIRTH weight; HEALTH policy
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 3, p98
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article