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Family Medicine and Community Health EDITORIAL The health of women and children – an integral part of practice of family and community medicine Li Li The practice of family and community medi- education in the USA and provides a com- CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: cine covers all spectrum of health, including prehensive and synthesized perspective and Li Li [ᵾ⎜ ], MD, PhD Department of Family Medicine that of women and children. In this issue of useful reference for other countries in their and Community Health, Case FMCH, volume 6, issue number 3, four origi- efforts to develop a family medicine work- Western Reserve University, nal research articles address various aspects of force [6]. 11000 Cedar Avenue, Suite 402, health in these two subpopulations, highlighting Finally, the China Focus article by Luo Cleveland, OH 44106-7136, the comprehensiveness of primary healthcare. et al. [7] provides a comprehensive assess- USA E-mail: lxl62@case.edu Specicfi ally, Siuw et al. [1] examined ment of the current workforce of general intraocular pressure [IOP] among premeno- practitioners [GPs] in China and predicts Received 8 August 2018; pausal and postmenopausal women in Malaysia the number of GPs needed in China moving Accepted 13 August 2018 and reported a signicfi ant