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Navajo County Public Health Services
Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
Participation Benefits

Benefits Recieved by WIC Participants

Women receive:

  • WIC foods
  • Health screening
  • Nutrition education

Breastfeeding women also receive breastfeeding support & info.

Infants receive:

  • Breastfeeding support or formula
  • Immunization referrals
  • Health Screening
  • Their parents receive nutrition education

Children younger than 5 receive:

  • WIC foods
  • Immunization referrals
  • Health screening
    • < li> Nutrition education

Health benefits of WIC:

  • Premature births reduced
  • Low birth weight reduced
  • Long-term medical expenses reduced

Services WIC Offers

Foods:

  • Milk
  • Cereals
  • Eggs
  • Peanut butter or Beans
  • Cheese
  • Juices
  • Infant formula

For breastfeeding mothers only

  • Tuna
  • Carrots

Nutrition Education:

  • Individual nutrition counseling
  • Nutrition classes

Immunization Referrals
Infants & children younger than 5 referred for:

  • Diphtheria
  • Whooping cough
  • Tetanus
  • Hepatitus B
  • Polio
  • Meningitis
  • Measles, Mumps, Rubella

Breastfeeding Support

Clients receive encourgeament and instruction in breastfeeding methods.

Referrals

WIC refers to a variety of health and social services:

  • Food Pantries
  • Child Support enforcement
  • EPSDT
  • Family planning
  • Head Start
  • Housing services
  • Job banks
  • Prenatal care
  • Prenatal education
  • Children's Rehabilitative Services
  • Immunizations
  • Tobacco Cessation Program
  • AHCCCS, TANF, & Food Stamps
  • School lunch program
  • Substance-abuse programs
  • Early Childhood Intervention
  • Parenting Classes
  • Children with Special Health Care needs

Numerous studies have shown that pregnant women who participate in WIC have longer pregnancies leading to fewer premature births; have less low and very low birth-weight babies; experience fewer fetal and infant deaths; seek prenatal care earlier in pregnancy and consume more of such key nutrients as iron, protein, calcium, and vitamin C.

WIC helps to assure children's normal growth, reduces levels of anemia, increases immunization rates, improves access to regular health care and improves diets. In 1995, 46% of all infants born in the United States are in WIC. Eighteen percent of all children in the United States are in WIC.

WIC WORKS!

Nutrition Education:

Nutrition education stresses the relationship between proper nutrition and good health. Special emphasis is placed on the nutrition needs of the individual. Nutrition education assists the individual in achieving a positive change in food habits to result in improved health.

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