Evolving Women’s Primary Care to Address Care Gaps

Patient Engagement August 6, 2020
Sara Heath

The push to address care gaps in women’s primary care will require collaborative effort from providers, payers, policymakers, and investors.

The medical industry will have to see considerable buy-in from clinicians, payers, policymakers, and investors alike in order to fill the care gaps that plague women’s primary care, according to researchers from Manatt Health and the Commonwealth Fund.

This latest paper follows up on a previous one in which the researchers outlined where gaps in care access and quality lay for women’s primary care and why those gaps have emerged.

By and large, care gaps experienced by women stem from lapses in sex-specific, sex-aware, and gender-sensitive care for women. Primary care has fallen short in caring for women’s specific healthcare...

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