TY - JOUR T1 - The Percentage of Family Physicians Attending to Women's Gender-Specific Health Needs Is Declining JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 406 LP - 407 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2012.04.110290 VL - 25 IS - 4 AU - Imam M. Xierali AU - James C. Puffer AU - Sebastian T. C. Tong AU - Andrew W. Bazemore AU - Larry A. Green Y1 - 2012/07/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/25/4/406.abstract N2 - 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. ER -