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Home Research Research Library Primary Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Essential, and Inspiring Primary Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Essential, and Inspiring 2021 Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Spurred by a novel coronavirus pandemic, 2020 will undoubtedly stand out in the annals of history for radically upending the norms of US politics, economy, culture, and race relations and reminding us of the fragility of life as we know it. The US health care system, which has long struggled with fragmentation and poor return on unmatched per-capita spending, further revealed its shortcomings, among them continuing inattention to primary health care, which the world has long declared should be the “central function and main focus [of a] country’s health system.”1 The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on disadvantaged communities has shone another bright spotlight on the long-standing health and wealth inequities in our nation and the urgent need to address them. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2023 Racial/Ethnic Minority Identifying Family Physicians Are More Likely to Work in Solo Practices Go to Racial/Ethnic Minority Identifying Family Physicians Are More Likely to Work in Solo Practices 2019 Experiences of New Family Physicians Finding Jobs with Obstetrical Care in the USA Go to Experiences of New Family Physicians Finding Jobs with Obstetrical Care in the USA 2017 Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration Go to Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration 2018 Adherence to clinical guidelines for monitoring diabetes in primary care settings. Go to Adherence to clinical guidelines for monitoring diabetes in primary care settings.
Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2023 Racial/Ethnic Minority Identifying Family Physicians Are More Likely to Work in Solo Practices Go to Racial/Ethnic Minority Identifying Family Physicians Are More Likely to Work in Solo Practices 2019 Experiences of New Family Physicians Finding Jobs with Obstetrical Care in the USA Go to Experiences of New Family Physicians Finding Jobs with Obstetrical Care in the USA 2017 Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration Go to Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration 2018 Adherence to clinical guidelines for monitoring diabetes in primary care settings. Go to Adherence to clinical guidelines for monitoring diabetes in primary care settings.
2023 Racial/Ethnic Minority Identifying Family Physicians Are More Likely to Work in Solo Practices Go to Racial/Ethnic Minority Identifying Family Physicians Are More Likely to Work in Solo Practices
2019 Experiences of New Family Physicians Finding Jobs with Obstetrical Care in the USA Go to Experiences of New Family Physicians Finding Jobs with Obstetrical Care in the USA
2017 Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration Go to Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration
2018 Adherence to clinical guidelines for monitoring diabetes in primary care settings. Go to Adherence to clinical guidelines for monitoring diabetes in primary care settings.