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Characteristics of children who leave WIC program identified.
2004 MAY 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have identified the characteristics of children who drop out of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.
According to published research from the United States, "Maintaining enrollment in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and continued exposure of these children to immunization-promoting and nutritional benefits within the program is essential to improve the health status of this vulnerable population: Logistic regression was used to determine characteristics of two groups of children: those who dropped out of the program despite being eligible and those who remained in the program but were underimmunized.
"Of over 20,000 children 19-35 months old, 49% had participated in WIC but only 50% were still enrolled," reported Abigail M. Shefer and colleagues, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. "Factors most strongly associated with dropping out of the program were older age of child; white, black, or American Indian race; living in an urban or suburban area; higher socioeconomic status but still eligible for the program; having only one child at home; and having mothers who were unmarried or less than 30 years old (p
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