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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 2018 Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending Go to Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending 2022 From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? Go to From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? 2014 Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce. Go to Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce. 2020 Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians Go to Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians
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 2018 Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending Go to Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending 2022 From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? Go to From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? 2014 Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce. Go to Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce. 2020 Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians Go to Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians
2018 Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending Go to Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending
2022 From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? Go to From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately?
2014 Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce. Go to Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce.
2020 Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians Go to Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians
