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  2. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) - AAFP

    www.aafp.org/advocacy/advocacy-topics/health-care-coverage/aca.html

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — a law consistent with the AAFP principle that health is a basic human right — has transformed access to health care in the United States. Its ...

  3. Women’s Health | AAFP

    www.aafp.org/advocacy/advocacy-topics/prevention-public-health/women.html

    Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, new health insurance policies are required to cover a range of women’s preventive health care services without cost sharing, including ...

  4. Health Care for All: A Framework for Moving to a Primary Care ......

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    Over the past two decades, policies implemented through the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have extended access to affordable ...

  5. Preventive Health Care for Women Who Have Sex with Women - AAFP

    www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2017/0301/p314.html

    HSV-2. Up to 36% of women who have ever had same-sex partners have HSV-2 compared with 24% of women who have never had same-sex partners; genital transmission among women is inefficient but ...

  6. Pertussis: Common Questions and Answers | AAFP

    www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2021/0800/p186.html

    Am Fam Physician. 2021;104 (2):186-192. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, remains a public health concern despite expanded immunization recommendations over the past three decades. The ...

  7. Poverty and Health - The Family Medicine Perspective (Position...

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    Poverty is a complex and insidious determinant of health caused by systemic factors that can persist for generations in a family. Beginning before birth and continuing throughout an individual’s ...

  8. Climate Change and Environmental Health (Position Paper)

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    The mental health impacts of climate change are not experienced equally, and groups that historically have been made vulnerable continue to be at disproportionate risk. 68 How a person experiences ...

  9. Sexual Health History: Techniques and Tips - AAFP

    www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2020/0301/p286.html

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guide to taking a patient's sexual history uses the five Ps model: partners, practices, protection from sexually transmitted diseases/sexually ...

  10. What You Need to Know When Called Upon to Be a Good Samaritan

    www.aafp.org/pubs/fpm/issues/2008/0400/p37.html

    Typically, Good Samaritan laws provide immunity from civil damages for personal injuries, even including death, that result from ordinary negligence. They do not, for the most part, protect ...

  11. Medical Liability - AAFP

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    Overview. The Academy calls for medical liability reform that delivers prompt compensation to those truly injured in the course of medical care while preventing the needless diversion of limited ...