In a new letter from AAFP Board Cha...

In a new letter from AAFP Board Chair Warren Jone MD Ridgeland, Miss., to five major health care employer disposes Jones stressed that family physicians play a vital part in the diagnosis and management of mental illness. The five business disposes were the Washington Business form into groups on Health, the National Business Coalition onward Health, the Pacific Business collection on Health, the Leapfrog arrange and the Midwest Business form into groups on Health. Jones encouraged these form into groupss to direct their member companies to "structure their health care benefits to mask mental health care services provided to their employee and their families through family physicians." Included with each epistle was a copy of the AAFP position paper, "The Provision of Mental Health Care Services according to Family Physicians." Statistics from this paper showed that 32 percent of asymptomatic adults would first instant to a primary care physician when a mental health issue arises compared with and nothing else 4 percent of patients who indicated they would first approach a psychiatric professional. A pattern of this position paper is available online at www.aafp.org/x6928.xml.

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