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 25(4):406-407 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 Practice Predictors of Buprenorphine Prescribing by Family Physicians Go to Practice Predictors of Buprenorphine Prescribing by Family Physicians 2025 Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study Go to Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study 1990 Residency training for rural primary care Go to Residency training for rural primary care 2022 Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity Go to Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity
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 25(4):406-407 Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
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2020 Practice Predictors of Buprenorphine Prescribing by Family Physicians Go to Practice Predictors of Buprenorphine Prescribing by Family Physicians
2025 Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study Go to Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study
2022 Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity Go to Variation in Scope and Area of Practice by Family Physician Race and Ethnicity
