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- Doctor-patient communication. Clinical implications of social scientific research. (1984) (497)
- Information giving in medical care. (1985) (483)
- The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems (1991) (319)
- When nurses double as interpreters: a study of Spanish-speaking patients in a US primary care setting. (2001) (314)
- A critical theory of medical discourse: ideology, social control, and the processing of social context in medical encounters. (1989) (260)
- Abridged Somatization: A Study in Primary Care (1998) (217)
- Economic crisis, restrictive policies, and the population's health and health care: the Greek case. (2013) (217)
- The Communication of Information about Illness (1972) (209)
- Consumerism in medicine : challenging physician authority (1985) (207)
- Social medicine then and now: lessons from Latin America. (2001) (200)
- The exportation of managed care to Latin America. (1999) (194)
- Physician stereotypes about female health and illness: a study of patient's sex and the informative process during medical interviews. (1979) (156)
- The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care (1983) (147)
- Traumatic life events in primary care patients: a study in an ethnically diverse sample. (2000) (145)
- The Exploitation of Illness in Capitalist Society. (1975) (144)
- Managed care in Latin America: the new common sense in health policy reform. (2001) (143)
- Differences in clinical communication by gender (1999) (139)
- Information control and the micropolitics of health care: summary of an ongoing research project. (1976) (130)
- On Studying the Discourse of Medical Encounters: A Critique of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods and a Proposal for Reasonable Compromise (1990) (123)
- The Social Origins of Illness: A Neglected History (1981) (119)
- Patient centeredness in medical encounters requiring an interpreter. (2000) (113)
- Somatisation disorder in primary care (1998) (109)
- Social medicine in Latin America: productivity and dangers facing the major national groups (2001) (106)
- DSM-IV hypochondriasis in primary care. (1998) (101)
- Access to medical care for documented and undocumented Latinos in a southern California county. (1991) (100)
- Prevalence and correlates of mental disorders among Native American women in primary care. (2004) (92)
- Medicine, superstructure and micropolitics. (1979) (91)
- A Marxist view of medical care. (1978) (88)
- Promotoras as Mental Health Practitioners in Primary Care: A Multi-Method Study of an Intervention to Address Contextual Sources of Depression (2010) (88)
- The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (2001) (87)
- Social capital and health care experiences among low-income individuals. (2008) (86)
- Critical incidents of nonadherence with standard precautions guidelines among community hospital-based health care workers (2004) (81)
- Child maltreatment prevalence and mental disorders outcomes among American Indian women in primary care. (2004) (81)
- Global trade and public health. (2005) (79)
- PTSD and somatization in women treated at a VA primary care clinic. (2004) (76)
- The black box in somatization: unexplained physical symptoms, culture, and narratives of trauma. (1997) (72)
- Report of the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health: a summary and critique (2003) (70)
- Somatization: a debilitating syndrome in primary care. (2001) (69)
- Educating, Training, and Mentoring Minority Faculty and Other Trainees in Mental Health Services Research (2007) (63)
- A hierarchical classes analysis (HICLAS) of primary care patients with medically unexplained somatic symptoms (1998) (61)
- Mentoring Partnerships for Minority Faculty and Graduate Students in Mental Health Services Research (2006) (58)
- Safety-net institutions buffer the impact of Medicaid managed care: a multi-method assessment in a rural state. (2002) (56)
- The Micropolitics of Medicine: A Contextual Analysis (1984) (53)
- Medicaid Managed Care for Mental Health Services: The Survival of Safety Net Institutions in Rural Settings (2008) (50)
- Narratives of aging and social problems in medical encounters with older persons. (1994) (49)
- Economic Development, Political-Economic System, and the Physical Quality of Life (1986) (46)
- One and a Half Centuries of Forgetting and Rediscovering: Virchow’s Lasting Contributions to Social Medicine (2006) (44)
- A Marxian interpretation of the growth and development of coronary care technology. (1979) (43)
- Privatization of Health Services in Less Developed Countries: An Empirical Response to the Proposals of the World Bank and Wharton School (2007) (43)
- Multinational corporations and health care in the United States and Latin America: strategies, actions, and effects. (2004) (42)
- Women's narratives in primary care medical encounters. (1995) (42)
- Report of the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2003) (41)
- A Critical Theory of Medical Discourse: How Patients and Health Professionals Deal with Social Problems (1989) (39)
- Evaluating health-care needs of the poor: a community-oriented approach. (1989) (37)
- Latent functions of the sick role in various institutional settings. (1971) (35)
- Processing narratives of self-destructive behavior in routine medical encounters: health promotion, disease prevention, and the discourse of health care. (1993) (35)
- Somatization in primary care, with a focus on immigrants and refugees. (1995) (34)
- At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients...and What We Can Do About It (2001) (34)
- Mental Health Research in Primary Care: Mandates from a Community Advisory Board (2005) (33)
- Global trade and public health. (2005) (32)
- The communication of information about illness. Clinical, sociological, and methodological considerations. (1972) (32)
- Primary care in Cuba: low- and high-technology developments pertinent to family medicine. (1997) (31)
- Limitations of a structured psychiatric diagnostic instrument in assessing somatization among Latino patients in primary care. (1999) (31)
- Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire (2011) (30)
- An ethnography of clinic "noise" in a community-based, promotora-centered mental health intervention. (2007) (30)
- Commentary: Salvador Allende and the birth of Latin American social medicine. (2005) (29)
- Immunization Coverage and Medicaid Managed Care in New Mexico: A Multimethod Assessment (2004) (27)
- Changing the structure of medical discourse: implications of cross-national comparisons. (1989) (27)
- Global trade, public health, and health services: stakeholders' constructions of the key issues. (2005) (26)
- Dangerous to Your Health: Capitalism in Health Care (1995) (26)
- Medicine, socialism, and totalitarianism: lessons from Chile. (1974) (26)
- Argentina: No Lesson Learned (2006) (25)
- Multimethod evaluation of health policy change: an application to Medicaid managed care in a rural state. (2008) (25)
- Is our work dangerous? Should it be? (1998) (23)
- Depressive Symptoms and Their Social Contexts: a Qualitative Systematic Literature Review of Contextual Interventions (2011) (21)
- Military Personnel Who Seek Health and Mental Health Services Outside the Military. (2018) (21)
- How the United States Exports Managed Care to Developing Countries (2001) (21)
- Commentary--the history and contradictions of the health care safety net. (2005) (20)
- Medicaid Managed Care for Mental Health Services in a Rural State (2005) (20)
- Patient-doctor communication in cross-national perspective. A study in Mexico. (1996) (20)
- Stopping and restarting medications in the perioperative period (1987) (20)
- Place as a predictor of health insurance coverage: A multivariate analysis of counties in the United States. (2014) (19)
- Prenatal Care Utilization for Mothers from Low-Income Areas of New Mexico, 1989–1999 (2010) (19)
- How the United States exports managed care to third-world countries. (2000) (19)
- Transforming Administrative and Clinical Practice in a Public Behavioral Health System: An Ethnographic Assessment of the Context of Change (2009) (18)
- A Marxist Analysis of the Health Care Systems of Advanced Capitalist Societies (1981) (17)
- The medical profession and nuclear war. A social history. (1985) (17)
- Capitalism, Socialism, and the Physical Quality of Life (1986) (16)
- Narratives of Somatizing and Non somatizing Patients in a Primary Care Setting (1998) (15)
- TWO-CLASS MEDICINE RETURNS TO THE UNITED STATES: IMPACT OF MEDI-CAL REFORM (1984) (15)
- The strange career of managed competition: from military failure to medical success? (1994) (15)
- MICROPOLITICS OF MEDICINE: THEORETICAL ISSUES (1986) (15)
- Capitalism, socialism, and the physical quality of life. (1989) (14)
- State Mental Health Policy: New Mexico's Medicaid managed care waiver: organizing input from mental health consumers and advocates. (2003) (14)
- Financial barriers to medical care: a prospective study in a university-affiliated community clinic. (1989) (13)
- Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health (2018) (13)
- Functional Status and Financial Barriers to Medical Care Among the Poor (1990) (13)
- Health Policy and Social Change: A Comparative History of Chile and Cuba (1983) (12)
- Local advocacy for the medically indigent: strategies and accomplishments in one county. (1990) (12)
- Expansion of medical institutions into urban residential areas. (1970) (11)
- Multinational corporations, the state, and contemporary medicine (2011) (11)
- The informative process in medical care: A preliminary report with implications for instructional communication (1978) (11)
- On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (2006) (10)
- Interpretive analysis of spoken discourse: Dealing with the limitations of quantitative and qualitative methods (1993) (10)
- The History and Future of Neoliberal Health Reform (2016) (10)
- The Effects of Behavioral Health Reform on Safety-Net Institutions: A Mixed-Method Assessment in a Rural State (2014) (10)
- Cobertura universal en salud: el extraño romance de The Lancet, MEDICC, y Cuba / Universal health coverage: The strange romance of The Lancet, MEDICC, and Cuba (2016) (10)
- Health Care and Socialism in Chile (1975) (10)
- Deciding against corporate management of a state-supported academic medical center. (1986) (9)
- Caring for Active Duty Military Personnel in the Civilian Sector. (2009) (9)
- John D. Stoeckle and the Upstream Vision of Social Determinants in Public Health. (2016) (9)
- Controlling medical expansion (1977) (9)
- Empire, Health, and Health Care: Perspectives at the End of Empire as We Have Known It (2015) (8)
- [Latin American social medicine: contributions and challenges]. (2002) (8)
- Truth's Search for Power in Health Policy: Critical Applications to Community-Oriented Primary Care and Small Area Analysis (1992) (8)
- The Latin American Social Medicine Database: a resource for epidemiology. (2008) (8)
- Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation (2020) (8)
- Social Theory and Medicine (1976) (8)
- Corporate interests, philanthropies, and the peace movement. (1985) (7)
- Political Economic Systems and the Health of Populations: Historical Thought and Current Directions (2007) (7)
- Introduction: Marxist perspectives in social medicine☆ (1989) (6)
- Advancing the business creed? The framing of decisions about public sector managed care. (2012) (6)
- Review of The social transformation of American medicine. (1984) (6)
- Access to medical care in a medically indigent population (1989) (6)
- Obamacare: The Neoliberal Model Comes Home to Roost in the United States—If We Let It (2014) (6)
- Community-based health care: contradictions and challenges. (1983) (6)
- Increasing access to Latin American social medicine resources: a preliminary report. (2003) (6)
- Why it's time for a national health program in the United States. (1989) (6)
- The Political Economy of Health and Medicine (1988) (6)
- Selling the Obama plan: mistakes, misunderstandings, and other misdemeanors. (2010) (6)
- COVID-19 as Cause versus Trigger for the Collapse of Capitalism (2020) (6)
- Truth's Search for Power: The Dilemmas of the Social Sciences (1968) (5)
- An innovative community medicine curriculum: the La Mesa housecleaning cooperative. (2000) (5)
- Research on doctor-patient communication: implications for practice. (1986) (5)
- Managed care and the geriatric patient-physician relationship. (2000) (5)
- Imperialism's Health Component (2015) (5)
- Resisting the Imperial Order and Building an Alternative Future in Medicine and Public Health (2015) (4)
- The return of two-class medicine--ill effects of Medi-Cal reform. (1985) (4)
- Homes or Hospitals? Contradictions of the Urban Crisis (1979) (4)
- A heroic struggle to understand the risk of cancers among workers in the electronics industry: the case of Samsung (2012) (3)
- [Managed care in Latin America: transnationalization of the health sector in the context of reform]. (2000) (3)
- Global trade and public health. Author's reply (2005) (3)
- Local Advocacy for the Medically Indigent: Strategies and Accomplishments in One County (2010) (3)
- The Practice of Uncertainty: Voices of Physicians and Patients in Medical Malpractice Claims (1999) (3)
- The Latin American Social Medicine database (2004) (3)
- Digital Information for Latin American Social Medicine: A Case Study (2001) (2)
- Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health (2020) (2)
- AJPH supplement on military suicide. (2012) (2)
- Local Advocacy for the Medically Indigent: Strategies and Accomplishments in One County (1992) (2)
- Discrimination in Social Science & Medicine? (1990) (2)
- Revolution Now: Teachings from the Global South for Revolutionaries in the Global North (2017) (2)
- Dilemmas of community organizing: Mission Hill in Boston--a reply. (1978) (2)
- Corporate Interests, Philanthropies, and the Peace Movement (1986) (2)
- Express concerns about the Spanish translation of The Lancet's Series entitled Universal health coverage in Latin America. (2015) (1)
- Access to Medical Care for Undocumented Latinos in a Southern California County (1991) (1)
- How missing evidence-based medicine indicators can inform COVID-19 vaccine distribution policies: a scoping review and calculation of indicators from data in randomised controlled trials (2022) (1)
- Right Care Series gets it wrong (2017) (1)
- Confronting the Upstream Causes of COVID-19 and Other Epidemics to Follow (2020) (1)
- EconomicCrisis,RestrictivePolicies,andthePopulation's HealthandHealthCare:TheGreekCase (2013) (1)
- The Commodification of Health Care and the Search for a Universal Health Program in the United States. (2012) (1)
- Next in Line for NAFTA? Images from Chile (1995) (1)
- Marxist perspectives in social medicine. (1989) (1)
- Letter: Physicians working for the union. (1976) (1)
- Local research and legal advocacy for the medically indigent in Orange County, California. (1996) (1)
- Using absolute risk reduction to guide the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines (2022) (1)
- Women and health: The politics of sex in medicine: edited by Elizabeth Fee. Baywood, Farmingdale, NY, 1983. 259 pp. $14.50 (1985) (1)
- SPECTRUM: Medical Philanthropies: The Band-Aid Treatment? (1980) (1)
- COVID-19 vaccines and evidence-based medicine (2021) (1)
- The Impact of Changing Medicaid Enrollments on New Mexico's Immunization Program (2008) (1)
- A good word for the "young man (or woman) with a gun": whose violence? Whose "salutogenesis"? (1993) (1)
- The Vicissitudes of Public Health Policy in the Americas (2010) (1)
- Studying Narratives of Ageing and Social Problems in Medical Encounters (2019) (0)
- Health Praxis, Reform, and Sociomedical Activism (2020) (0)
- Social Medicine and the Micro-politics of Medical Encounters (2020) (0)
- Author's rejoinder (1979) (0)
- Book ReviewMedicine under Capitalism. (1977) (0)
- Health internationalism in the 1970s and 1980s (2013) (0)
- Physician-patient communication. (1987) (0)
- Uncontrolled medical expansion threatens urban neighborhoods. (1977) (0)
- THE INFORMATIVE PROCESS IN MEDICAL CARE: A PRELIMI NARY REPORT WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL (2016) (0)
- Working toward peace by providing civilian health and mental health services to active duty military personnel- an update (2013) (0)
- Latin American Social Medicine (2008) (0)
- Health and Empire, Part 1 (2020) (0)
- Commentary Why It's Time for a National Health Program in the United States (2004) (0)
- Waitzkin Responds. (2016) (0)
- Response to Carter and Sánchez Delgado: questions of accuracy and intellectual integrity. (2020) (0)
- Resisting Empire and Building an Alternative Future in Medicine and Public Health (2015) (0)
- California's cutbacks in public-sector medicine: two-class health care returns to the United States? (1984) (0)
- One and Half Centuries of Forgetting and Remembering the Social Origins of Illness (2020) (0)
- Ethics in Public Health: Global Trade and Public Health (2009) (0)
- The Exportation of Managed Care (2015) (0)
- The Social Determination of Illness, Part 2 (2020) (0)
- PREPARATIONS FOR WAR (1981) (0)
- Marxian interpretation of coronary care technology. (1980) (0)
- Response from Cereseto and Waitzkin (1987) (0)
- COVID-19 in the Two Koreas (2021) (0)
- Medicine, Public Health, and the End of Empire? Building an Alternative Future (2010) (0)
- Health and Empire, Part 2 (2020) (0)
- The Affordable Care Act and the Transformation of US Health Care (2016) (0)
- Civilian health and mental health services for active duty and veteran military personnel (2013) (0)
- Chapter 9. Social Medicine, at Home and Abroad (2019) (0)
- Book Review:Poverty and Health: A Sociological Analysis. John Kosa, Aaron Antonovsky, Irving Kenneth Zola (1971) (0)
- Working toward peace by providing civilian services for military personnel - conceptual and practical findings (2013) (0)
- Health and the family: A review essay (1973) (0)
- Access for in a (0)
- OBSOLETE: Latin American Social Medicine (2017) (0)
- A Rejoinder from Waitzkin (1994) (0)
- Corticosteroid therapy inulcerative colitis. (1970) (0)
- The Social Determination of Illness, Part 1 (2020) (0)
- Recent studies of inequality: implications for health care. (1974) (0)
- Erratum to "Place as a predictor of health insurance coverage: A multivariate analysis of counties in the United States" [Health Place 34 (2015) 207-214]. (2015) (0)
- Book reviews (1994) (0)
- Social Capital Scale (2018) (0)
- The Medical Response to Nuclear War-Reply (1985) (0)
- Imperialism, health and medicine: edited by Vicente Navarro. Pluto Press, London, 1982. 285 pp. £6.95 (first published by Baywood Publishing Co., Inc., Farmingdale, NY, 1982) (1983) (0)
- Banking on Health: The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America (2019) (0)
- HEALTH POLICY AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A COMPARATIVE (1983) (0)
- Global Social Policy Forum (2002) (0)
- Doctor–Patient Relationships (2018) (0)
- Section 1 IntroductIon and General concepts Chapter 1 Policy , Politics , and the intensive care Unit (2017) (0)
- Universal health coverage as hegemonic health policy in low- and middle-income countries: A mixed-methods analysis. (2022) (0)
- Social Medicine in Latin America (2020) (0)
- Social Medicine in the United States (2020) (0)
- Handbook of medical sociology: edited by Howard B. Freeman, Sol Levine and Leo G.Reeder. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1972 (2nd edn). 598 p. $12.95. (1975) (0)
- "Post"-pandemic Capitalism: Reform or Transform?; Comment on "Ensuring Global Health Equity in a Post-pandemic Economy" (2023) (0)
- COMMUNICATION BETWEEN OLDER PATIENTS AND THEIR PHYSICIANS MANAGED CARE AND THE GERIATRIC PATIENT-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP (2010) (0)
- Executives decision making in for-profit managed care organizations: Advancing the business creed (2009) (0)
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