 Why WIC?
WIC Improves Health
Evidence suggests that women who participate in WIC have improved pregnancy outcomes, resulting in healthier babies and reduced newborn medical costs. This benefits the infants and saves Medicaid millions of dollars in intensive neonatal care. Other studies findings show that:
- Newborn intensive care costs $2.4 billion, or about $15,000 a baby. The average cost of WIC benefits for a pregnant woman is less than $250 (source, 1985).
- Children who participate in WIC were more likely to receive regular preventive health services and were better immunized than children who did not participate in WIC (National WIC Evaluation, 1987).
- In one state Medicaid costs dropped by an estimated $744 for the first 50 days of life. In other words, for every dollar spent on prenatal WIC participation, one state saved $3.90 in newborn Medicaid costs (WIC Medicaid Evaluation, 1992).
- WIC benefits improved the quality of diet among infants and preschool children in the WIC Program (National WIC Evaluation, 1987).
- WIC provided quality, cost-effective care to over 1 million women, infants, and children in Arizona, in 2005.
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Services offered in the State of Arizona
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Contact WIC/Office of Nutrition Services:
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Note: No direct client services are available at this location
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