Table of Contents:
  • ""WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""COMMITTEE PROCESS AND STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT""; ""PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITION RISK ASSESSMENT""; ""GENERAL CONCLUSIONS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SPECIFIC NUTRITION RISK CRITERIA""; ""Anthropometric Risk Criteria""; ""Biochemical and Other Medical Risk Criteria""; ""Dietary Risk Criteria""; ""Predisposing Nutrition Risk Criteria""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH AND ACTION""; ""Research Recommendations""; ""Action Recommendations""; ""1 Overview""
  • ""CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE""""THE WIC PROGRAM""; ""Program Benefits""; ""WIC Program Eligibility Criteria""; ""Legislative and Programmatic History of the WIC Program""; ""National Expansion""; ""Other Programmatic and Administrative Changes During the 1970s""; ""Programmatic and Administrative Changes During the 1980s""; ""Programmatic and Administrative Changes During the 1990s""; ""Program Size""; ""OVERVIEW OF THE REPORT AND THE COMMITTEE PROCESS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Poverty and Nutrition Risk""; ""DEFINITION OF POVERTY""; ""PREVALENCE OF POVERTY""
  • ""POVERTY AND NUTRITION RISK FOR WOMEN""""POVERTY AND NUTRITION RISK FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN""; ""EFFECTS OF WIC PROGRAM PARTICIPATION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Principles Underlying the Nutrition Risk Criteria for WIC Eligibility""; ""PRINCIPLES OF NUTRITION RISK ASSESSMENT""; ""Purpose of Nutrition Risk Criteria in the WIC Program""; ""Identifying Nutrition Risk Indicators""; ""Setting Cutoff Points for Nutrition Risk Indicators""; ""WIC NUTRITION RISK CRITERIA""; ""PRIORITY SYSTEM OF THE WIC PROGRAM""; ""SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Anthropometric Risk Criteria""
  • ""USE OF ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES IN THE WIC PROGRAM""""MATERNAL ANTHROPOMETRIC RISK CRITERIA""; ""Prepregnancy Underweight""; ""Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Prepregnancy Underweight""; ""Prepregnancy Underweight as an Indicator of Nutrition and Health Risk""; ""Prepregnancy Underweight as an Indicator of Nutrition and Health Benefit""; ""Use of Prepregnancy Underweight as a Nutrition Risk Criterion in the WIC Setting""; ""Recommendations for Prepregnancy Underweight""; ""Low Maternal Weight Gain""; ""Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Low Maternal Weight Gain""
  • ""Low Maternal Weight Gain as an Indicator of Nutrition and Health Risk""""Low Maternal Weight Gain as an Indicator of Nutrition and Health Benefit""; ""Use of Low Maternal Weight Gain as a Nutrition Risk Criterion in the WIC Setting""; ""Recommendations for Low Maternal Weight Gain""; ""Maternal Weight Loss During Pregnancy""; ""Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Maternal Weight Loss During Pregnancy""; ""Maternal Weight Loss During Pregnancy as an Indicator of Nutrition and Health Risk""; ""Maternal Weight Loss During Pregnancy as an Indicator of Nutrition and Health Benefit""