Rural Women's Healthcare: Rethinking Provision of Care Through Diversification
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Description
Discusses women's healthcare access, obstetrics unit closures, and maternal rural health disparities. Provides suggestions to grow and retain the obstetrics workforce in rural areas, focusing on financial sustainability, clinical learning opportunities, and diversification of the workforce, particularly for family medicine physicians.
Author(s)
Constance Liu, Valory Wangler
Citation
Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 52(4), 695-709
Date
12/2025
Tagged as
Access
· Closures of healthcare facilities and services
· Health disparities
· Health workforce education and training
· Health workforce supply and demand
· Maternal health and prenatal care
· Physicians
· Primary care
· Recruitment and retention of health professionals
· Sustainability of programs
· Women