Author : Laura Summer
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Food relief
ISBN :
The purpose of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' WIC Targeting Project is to assist WIC agencies in improving the targeting of WIC benefits to participants at highest risk in their states. With the Targeting Project, the Center's goal is to highlight effective activities already being carried out in some states and to make recommendations that other states can use to improve the targeting of WIC benefits. The findings of this Project are presented in this report.
Author : Gretchen Engle Schafft
Publisher :
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN :
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 1063 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2017-06-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309450160
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serve over 8 million pregnant women, and mothers of and their infants and young children. Today the program serves more than a quarter of the pregnant women and half of the infants in the United States, at an annual cost of about $6.2 billion. Through its contribution to the nutritional needs of pregnant, breastfeeding, and post-partum women; infants; and children under 5 years of age; this federally supported nutrition assistance program is integral to meeting national nutrition policy goals for a significant portion of the U.S. population. To assure the continued success of the WIC, Congress mandated that the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reevaluate the program's food packages every 10 years. In 2014, the USDA asked the Institute of Medicine to undertake this reevaluation to ensure continued alignment with the goals of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In this third report, the committee provides its final analyses, recommendations, and the supporting rationale.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 1996-06-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309053854
This book reviews the scientific basis for nutrition risk criteria used to establish eligibility for participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The volume also examines the specific segments of the WIC population at risk for each criterion, identifies gaps in the scientific knowledge base, formulates recommendations regarding appropriate criteria, and where applicable, recommends values for determining who is at risk for each criterion. Recommendations for program action and research are made to strengthen the validity of nutrition risk criteria used in the WIC program.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Pregnancy
ISBN :
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Food relief
ISBN :
Abstract: This report addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture, discusses the need to improve management effectiveness and to make better use of limited resources in the Food and Nutrition Service's Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The report contains recommendations which are intended to help ensure that the funds made for WIC are directed first to those among the eligible population who are the most vulnerable and thus likely to benefit the most from WIC intervention. Recommendations given include: targeting the most needy population groups; using professional authorities to reassess WIC participation standards; focusing greater attention on income eligibility of participants; and establishing stricter and more comprehensive participant file records.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2002-05-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309082846
Dietary Risk Assessment in the WIC Program reviews methods used to determine dietary risk based on failure to meet Dietary Guidelines for applicants to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Applicants to the WIC program must be at nutritional risk to be eligible for program benefits. Although "dietary risk" is only one of five nutrition risk categories, it is the category most commonly reported among WIC applicants. This book documents that nearly all low-income women in the childbearing years and children 2 years and over are at risk because their diets fail to meet the recommended numbers of servings of the food guide pyramid. The committee recommends that all women and children (ages 2-4 years) who meet the eligibility requirements based on income, categorical and residency status also be presumed to meet the requirement of nutrition risk. By presuming that all who meet the categorical and income eligibility requirements are at dietary risk, WIC retains its potential for preventing and correcting nutrition-related problems while avoiding serious misclassification errors that could lead to denial of services for eligible individuals.
Author : Douglas J. Besharov
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780844741499
This book analyzes the research on the effectiveness of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Food relief
ISBN :
Abstract: This report addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture, discusses the need to improve management effectiveness and to make better use of limited resources in the Food and Nutrition Service's Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The report contains recommendations which are intended to help ensure that the funds made for WIC are directed first to those among the eligible population who are the most vulnerable and thus likely to benefit the most from WIC intervention. Recommendations given include: targeting the most needy population groups; using professional authorities to reassess WIC participation standards; focusing greater attention on income eligibility of participants; and establishing stricter and more comprehensive participant file records.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Children
ISBN :
