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The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC Program) is proving that preventive health care is most cost-beneficial than cure.
A Harvard University study found that for every dollar spent on a WIC participant, three dollars are saved that would be spent toward hospitalizing a lowbirth-weight newborn and its mother.
The study also showed that pregnant women receiving WIC foods had fewer lowbirth-weight babies than a similar group of eligible mothers not enrolled in the Program.
Low-birth-weight results in a longer hospital stay for the mother and baby, and often results in disabilities requiring long-range treatment. It is an established causative factor in cerebral palsy, and has been suspected in epilepsy and various forms of mental retardation. Deaths of lowbirth-weight infants during the first 28 days of life are 30
91.8%