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Prenatal WIC Participation in Relation to Low Birth Weight and Medicaid Infant Costs in North Carolina – A 1997 Update

Record #:
29429
Abstract:
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental food and nutrition education to low-income or nutritionally at-risk women, infants and young children. This North Carolina study examined prenatal WIC participants and non-participants, and compared Medicaid births, birth weight and Medicaid newborn costs.
Source:
SCHS Studies (NoCar RA 407.4 N8 P48), Vol. Issue 122, Nov 2000, p1-9, bibl, f