WIC provides food, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and health care and social service referrals to nutritionally at-risk low-income pregnant women, new mothers, infants, and children through age 4. This report updates estimates of those meeting the criteria for WIC benefits from 1994...

This report summarizes research published since the last major review, completed in 2004, on the impact of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) on beneficiaries' health, health-related behaviors, and utilization of health care. It includes research...

The authors analyze the effect of unintended consequences and unconscious gender-based bias on attempts at health policy reform in the United States. Recent reforms in national health policy that would seem to address issues particularly relevant to women have been more symbolic than substantive...

Women's authority over specific family decisions tends to increase their financial security and power, which has an impact on their children's general health and well-being. A multistage sampling process was employed to choose 120 households. Primary data on the children's nutritional status,...

WIC provides food, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and health care and social service referrals to nutritionally at-risk low-income pregnant women, new mothers, infants, and children through age 4. This report updates estimates of those meeting the criteria for WIC benefits from 1994...

This report summarizes research published since the last major review, completed in 2004, on the impact of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) on beneficiaries' health, health-related behaviors, and utilization of health care. It includes research...