The percentage of family physicians attending to women’s gender-specific health needs is declining

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

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.

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