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Home Research Research Library The percentage of family physicians attending to women’s gender-specific health needs is declining The percentage of family physicians attending to women’s gender-specific health needs is declining 2012 Author(s) Xierali, Imam M, Puffer, James C, Tong, Sebastian T, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Green, Larry A Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) JABFM Policy Brief, Practice Demographic Survey, and Sexual And Reproductive Health Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine As the largest and most widely distributed of primary care physicians, family physicians have an important role in providing women’s health care, especially in rural and underserved areas. The proportion of family physicians who are attending to women is declining. Policy intervention may be needed to help family physicians maintain the comprehensiveness of care necessary to address the wide range of medical problems of women they encounter within their practices. ABFM Research Read all 2020 Oral corticosteroid use, obesity, and ethnicity in children with asthma Go to Oral corticosteroid use, obesity, and ethnicity in children with asthma 2021 The Declining Scope of Practice of Family Physicians Is Limited to Urban Areas Go to The Declining Scope of Practice of Family Physicians Is Limited to Urban Areas 2021 Distribution of Physician Specialties by Rurality Go to Distribution of Physician Specialties by Rurality 2021 Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality Go to Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality
Author(s) Xierali, Imam M, Puffer, James C, Tong, Sebastian T, Bazemore, Andrew W, and Green, Larry A Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) JABFM Policy Brief, Practice Demographic Survey, and Sexual And Reproductive Health Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2020 Oral corticosteroid use, obesity, and ethnicity in children with asthma Go to Oral corticosteroid use, obesity, and ethnicity in children with asthma 2021 The Declining Scope of Practice of Family Physicians Is Limited to Urban Areas Go to The Declining Scope of Practice of Family Physicians Is Limited to Urban Areas 2021 Distribution of Physician Specialties by Rurality Go to Distribution of Physician Specialties by Rurality 2021 Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality Go to Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality
2020 Oral corticosteroid use, obesity, and ethnicity in children with asthma Go to Oral corticosteroid use, obesity, and ethnicity in children with asthma
2021 The Declining Scope of Practice of Family Physicians Is Limited to Urban Areas Go to The Declining Scope of Practice of Family Physicians Is Limited to Urban Areas
2021 Distribution of Physician Specialties by Rurality Go to Distribution of Physician Specialties by Rurality
2021 Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality Go to Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality
