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.
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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