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Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program Final Report (2003) / Chapter Skim
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1. Introduction
Pages 13-17

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From page 13...
... Its purpose is "to provide supplemental nutritious food as an adjunct to good health care during such critical times of growth and development in order to prevent the occurrence of health problems" (Public Law 94-105) and "improve the health status of these persons" (Public Law 95-6271.
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From page 14...
... In contrast, some advocates and state WIC agencies believe that the estimates of the number of eligible persons are too low and that there are additional people who are eligible and would choose to participate, given their eligibility. PANEL CHARGE With these concerns in mind, USDA asked the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council to convene a panel of experts to review the methods used to estimate the national number of people eligible and likely to participate in the WIC program.
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From page 15...
... During the first phase, the panel met twice, including a meeting to convene a workshop on the estimation methodology. The panel's publication Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program: Phase I Report (National Research Council, 2001)
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From page 16...
... We examined current assumptions used to estimate the number of eligible postpartum and breastSeeding women. BreastSeeding postpartum women are a separate eligibility category than nonbreastEeeding postpartum women and are given different food packages, have different certification periods, and are treated differently in the priority waiting system.
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From page 17...
... This chapter discusses two major problems with the current methodology that the panel found in its Phase I report: the use of an annual measure of income and the lack of an adequate estimate of the number of people adjunctively eligible for WIC. The estimates of the number of income-eligible infants are especially important for the current methodology because they are used to infer the number of pregnant and postpartum women who are eligible.
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