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Howard Waitzkin publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Howard Waitzkin sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 214 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Howard Waitzkin D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Howard Waitzkin sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Howard Waitzkin is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within health professions, including general health, infectious diseases, and economics related to health systems. Waitzkin's work engages with health modeling and simulation methods as well, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to public health issues.

The scientist's recent publications focus extensively on the COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic implications. Their selected recent papers include:

  • Confronting the Upstream Causes of COVID-19 and Other Epidemics to Follow, 2020, International Journal of Health Services
  • Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, 2020, International Journal of Health Services
  • COVID-19 as Cause versus Trigger for the Collapse of Capitalism, 2020, International Journal of Health Services

Other papers associated with Waitzkin's field of study but authored by collaborators in related research include:

  • Universal health coverage as hegemonic health policy in low- and middle-income countries: A mixed-methods analysis, 2022, Social Science & Medicine
  • 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, BMJ Open

Their frequent coauthors reflect ongoing collaborations within health sciences and pandemic-related research. These include:

  • Andrew Larkin
  • Ella A. Fassler
  • Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar
  • Daniel Smithers
  • Claudio Schuftan

Waitzkin has published primarily in the following journals:

  • International Journal of Health Services
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • BMJ Open
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • BMJ evidence-based medicine

The main topics explored in their research emphasize SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, including vaccine coverage and hesitancy, epidemiological studies of COVID-19, and broader pandemic impacts. Additional themes include healthcare systems and reforms, global health care challenges, and maternal and child health on a global scale.

Waitzkin received recognition as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Information giving in medical care

    Howard Waitzkin

  • Doctor-patient communication. Clinical implications of social scientific research.

    Howard Waitzkin

  • When nurses double as interpreters: a study of Spanish-speaking patients in a US primary care setting.

    Virginia Elderkin-Thompson;Roxane Cohen Silver;Howard Waitzkin

  • The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors Deal With Social Problems

    Howard Waitzkin

  • A critical theory of medical discourse: ideology, social control, and the processing of social context in medical encounters.

    Howard Waitzkin

  • Patient centeredness in medical encounters requiring an interpreter.

    Rocio Rivadeneyra;Virginia Elderkin-Thompson;Roxane Cohen Silver;Howard Waitzkin

  • Social Medicine Then and Now: Lessons From Latin America

    Howard Waitzkin;Celia Iriart;Alfredo Estrada;Silvia Lamadrid

  • Medicina social latinoamericana: aportes y desafíos

    Celia Iriart;Howard Waitzkin;Jaime Breilh;Alfredo Estrada

  • The communication of information about illness. Clinical, sociological, and methodological considerations.

    H Waitzkin;J D Stoeckle

  • The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

    Howard Waitzkin

  • Abridged somatization: a study in primary care.

    Javier I. Escobar;Howard Waitzkin;Roxane Cohen Silver;Michael Gara

  • Economic Crisis, Restrictive Policies, and the Population’s Health and Health Care: The Greek Case

    Elias Kondilis;Stathis Giannakopoulos;Magda Gavana;Ioanna Ierodiakonou

  • The exportation of managed care to Latin America.

    Karen Stocker;Howard Waitzkin;Celia Iriart

  • Consumerism in medicine : challenging physician authority

    Howard Waitzkin;Marie Haug;Bebe Lavin

  • Physician stereotypes about female health and illness: a study of patient's sex and the informative process during medical interviews.

    Jacqueline Wallen;Howard Waitzkin;John Stoeckle

  • Managed care in Latin America: the new common sense in health policy reform

    Celia Iriart;Celia Iriart;Emerson Elı́as Merhy;Howard Waitzkin

  • The exploitation of illness in capitalist society

    Daniel J. Klenow;Howard B. Waitzkin;Barbara Waterman

  • Traumatic life events in primary care patients: a study in an ethnically diverse sample.

    E A Holman;R C Silver;H Waitzkin

  • Differences in clinical communication by gender

    Virginia Elderkin-Thompson;Howard Waitzkin

  • Information control and the micropolitics of health care: summary of an ongoing research project.

    Howard Waitzkin;John D. Stoeckle

  • The social origins of illness: a neglected history.

    Howard Waitzkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Cathleen E. Willging
Cathleen E. Willging Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation
Roxane Cohen Silver
Roxane Cohen Silver University of California, Irvine
Javier I. Escobar
Javier I. Escobar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael A. Gara
Michael A. Gara Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Nina Wallerstein
Nina Wallerstein University of New Mexico
Jeanne Miranda
Jeanne Miranda University of California, Los Angeles
Leo R. Chavez
Leo R. Chavez University of California, Irvine
Steffie Woolhandler
Steffie Woolhandler City University of New York
Gregory A. Aarons
Gregory A. Aarons University of California, San Diego
Ronald M. Andersen
Ronald M. Andersen University of California, Los Angeles

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