ChanceK. G.GreenC. G.CRITICAL CARE NURSING QUARTERLYChance, K. G., & Green, C. G. (2001b). The impact of customer focus on program participation rates in the Virginia WIC program (special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children). Journal of Public Health Management...
But the projected increase in SNAP participation also reflects increasing rates of food hardship, which refers to the inability to meet one's nutritional needs. From 1999 to 2007, food hardship in the U.S. remained roughly stable at about 11 percent. By 2008, that figure jumped to about 15...
This paper examines the effect of WIC program Participation on food consumption and diet quality of U.S. children between 2 and 4 years of age. Diet quality is assessed using the Healthy Eating Index, U.S. Department of Agriculture's instrument for measuring overall diet quality incorporating ...
Modernize the program.Over the past few years, policymakers made WIC more accessible by permitting participants to certify their eligibility remotely rather than in-person, and making it possible to reload benefits online. These flexibilities, which have helped increase child participat...
The study population had a large Hispanic majority (95%), a group that has the highest rates of overweight young children in the US. Total cumulative history of WIC program participation for the entire family, expressed as person-years and adjusted for reported breaks in participation, had a ...
Objectives:To determine national and state-specific population-based vaccine coverage rates among preschool children who participate in the WIC program, and to describe the strategies for promoting vaccination in WIC. Design/methods:Demographic data, WIC participation, and vaccination histories for children...
Several studies have demonstrated that nutritional supplementation of the mother during pregnancy tends to increase fetal growth rates and reduce perinatal and postnatal mortality. Moreover, success in reducing adverse birth outcomes has been shown to be superior if nutritional supplementation begins early ...
Figure 1. Trends in WIC Participation Rate, 2019-2021. Unadjusted trends in WIC participation rates in Online and Offline EBT states from January 2019 to January 2021 are shown above. Participation rates were calculated by dividing the number of WIC participants in online and offline states during...
Both WIC participants and non-participants reported being affected by the shortage at similar rates, according to a Washington State University study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. However, the researchers found that WIC participants were significantly more likely to...
CONCLUSIONS: Early WIC enrollment is associated with higher quit rates, although changes are modest when compared to the results from smoking cessation interventions for pregnant women. Given the prevalence of prenatal smoking among WIC participants, efforts to intensify WIC's role in smoking cessation...