Family physicians are an important source of mental health care.
While comprising about 15 percent of the physician workforce, family physicians provided approximately 20 percent of physician office-based mental health visits in the United States between 1980 and 1999. This proportion has remained stable over the past two decades despite a decline in many other types of office visits to family physicians. Family physicians remain an important source of mental health care for Americans.
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Robert Graham Center, Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care, 1350 Connecticut Ave., NW/ Suite 950, Washington, DC 20036, USA. policy@aafp.org
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D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D009819:Office Visits / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States