Gender lens Using a gender lens to view health means to examine issues and policies from the perspective of women and girls, taking into account how those issues interact with women s real life situations. Gender monolith Viewing women as a gender monolith refers to a perception that all women have the same health concerns and issues, overlooking the impact of culture, sexual preference, disability, income and access to care on the health of different women. A form of practice in which physicians without specialty training provide a wide range of primary health care services to patients. HCFA partly finances GME through Medicare direct and indirect payments. A formal association of three or more physicians or other health professionals providing health services.
Groups vary a great deal in size, composition, and financial arrangements.
As defined by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, any person who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activity, has a record of such impairment, or is regarded as having such an impairment. The state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The relative importance of various disabilities will differ depending upon the cultural milieu and the role of the affected individual in that culture. Most attempts at measurement have been assessed in terms or morbidity and mortality. They do not include an office building which includes a physician's office.