This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Alice Lenihan, MPH, RD
Raleigh, NC

JAMA. 1993;270(7):830.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.

—Dr Freed's recent article on breast-feeding¹ brings attention to a long-neglected resource needed to assist in reaching the Healthy People 2000² goals for promotion of breast-feeding.

However, we regret there is an error in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program costs for infants and breast-feeding women provided in the article. The actual yearly cost to the North Carolina WIC program for bottle-feeding infants is $932 (cost of infant food package and non— breast-feeding postpartum food package). This is more than twice the cost of $396 to WIC for breast-feeding women (cost of breast-feeding food package).

The critical issue to be emphasized is that there are still significant cost savings to the WIC program, and thus the taxpayer, for every woman who breast-feeds an infant. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?