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Howard Waitzkin
University of New Mexico
Visiting Scholar 2005
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS)
Area of Expertise: Howard Waitzkin is Professor
of Family and Community Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Sociology,
at the University of New Mexico. His work has focused on health
policy in comparative international perspective and on psychosocial
issues in primary care. He coauthored the proposal for a single-payer
national health program that was published in the New England Journal
of Medicine and later was introduced in the U.S. Congress. He has
been involved in advocacy for improved health access and currently
is conducting studies of Medicaid managed care in New Mexico, the
diffusion of managed care to Latin America, and global trade and
public health, supported by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, the World Health Organization, the National Institute
of Mental Health, and the United Nations. His work on patient-doctor
communication and psychosocial issues in primary care has been funded
by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Mental
Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Waitzkin has
received recognition as a Fulbright New Century Scholar, fellow
of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, recipient of the
Leo G. Reeder Award of the American Sociological Association for
Distinguished Scholarship in Medical Sociology (highest career achievement
award in the social sciences pertinent to medicine), and recipient
of the Jonathan Mann Award for Lifetime Commitment to Public Health
and Social Justice Issues from the New Mexico Public Health Association.
At the University of New Mexico's Public Health Program, he teaches
courses on health communication, public mental health, comparative
international health systems, and social medicine in Latin America.
He sees patients clinically and teaches in internal medicine and
family practice.
Country of Expertise:
Current Research Project:
Project Title: Global Trade and Public Health
Academic Background: Ph.D. and M.D.
Selected Publications:
- The Politics of Medical Encounters: How Patients and Doctors
Deal With Social Problems (Yale University Press, 1991)
- The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care
(Rowman and Littlefield, updated edition, 2000),
- At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System
Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients... And What We Can Do
About It (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001)
- Dr. Waitzkin has also authored more than 140 articles and chapters.
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