Resource Types: Report

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Enhancing the WIC Food Package: Impacts and Recommendations to Advance Nutrition Security

The WIC food packages advance health outcomes by addressing specific nutrient needs of infants, young children, and pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women. Consistent with analysis included in the 2017 report […]

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Cost Containment and Participant Access in USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Evidence from the Greater Los Angeles, CA, Area

This report provides an in-depth look at the tradeoff between participant access and program costs in USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), synthesizing several studies […]

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WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study 2: Second Year Report

The study previously produced two reports, the Intentions to Breastfeed Report and the Infant Year Report. The current report focuses on caregivers’ employment, school, and childcare circumstances, as well as […]

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WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study 2: Third year Report

The WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2 (WIC ITFPS-2), also known as the “Feeding My Baby” Study, captures data on caregivers and their children over the first 6 years […]

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WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study 2: Fourth year Report

Overall, the study examines child-feeding practices, associations between WIC services and those practices, and the health and nutrition outcomes of children who received WIC around birth. This report, the fifth […]

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WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2018

WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2018 (PC 2018) summarizes the demographic characteristics of participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nationwide in April 2018. […]

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WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2018 Food Package and Cost Reports

This report provides data on total food costs for each participant category and food package type. It also estimates pre- and post-rebate dollars spent on 18 major categories of WI-eligible […]

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Assocations between Governmental Policies to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Supermarket Purchases and Individual, Retailer, and Community Health Outcomes: An Integrative Review

This was a large review of 7 different government policies, one of which being the federal changes to the WIC food package, and how they improved the nutritional quality of […]

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Fruit and Vegetable Purchases and Consumption among WIC participants after the 2009 WIC Food Package Revision: A Systematic Review

Systematic Review of 39 articles specifically related to fruit and vegetable (FV) purchase or consumption. The majority of both national and state-level studies showed improvements between the food package revision […]

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Applying Racial Equity to U.S. Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs: SNAP, WIC and Child Nutrition

ENDING HUNGER in a lasting, sustainable way requires identifying and resolving its root causes. While hunger and poverty rates have declined nationwide, people of color consistently have far higher rates […]

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