Anthropological and socio-medical health care research in developing countries

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

1980 • 4,657 citations

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

2023 • 2,058 citations

A behavioral model of families' use of health services

1968 • 1,305 citations

Cultural Components in Responses to Pain¹

1952 • 874 citations

The Ecology of Medical Care

1961 • 740 citations

The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire

1978 • 626 citations

Professional uncertainty and the problem of supplier-induced demand

1982 • 598 citations

Some Approaches and Problems in the Study of the Use of Services--An Overview

1972 • 519 citations

What Research in Motivation Suggests for Public Health

1960 • 417 citations

Angst und Methode in den Verhaltenswissenschaften

1967 • 372 citations

The health seeking process: An approach to the natural history of illness

1977 • 330 citations

Social Patterns of Illness and Medical Care

1965 • 289 citations

Health, culture and community

1955 • 279 citations

Issues Underlying Prevalence of "Doctor-Shopping" Behavior

1976 • 260 citations

The Health of Regionville

1955 • 220 citations

Why do indigenous practitioners successfully heal?

1979 • 214 citations

Social Anthropology and Medicine

1977 • 202 citations

Health Interview Surveys in Developing Countries: A Review of the Methods and Results

1983 • 199 citations

Medicine takers, prescribers and hoarders

1974 • 173 citations

A model of the demand for medical and health services in Peninsular Malaysia

1982 • 168 citations

The Hierarchy of Resort in Curative Practices: The Admiralty Islands, Melanesia

1969 • 166 citations

Correlates of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction with Medical Care: A Community Perspective

1975 • 166 citations

Social Character in a Mexican Village

2018 • 162 citations

Some motives for seeking Preventive dental care

1963 • 158 citations

Consumer Assessments of the Quality of Medical Care

1974 • 158 citations

Health Care, an International Study

1976 • 148 citations

Ethnicity and patterns of help-seeking

1978 • 140 citations

Cultural Factors and the Response to Pain: A Review¹

1968 • 119 citations

A Re-Examination of Suchman's Views on Social Factors in Health Care Utilization

1975 • 114 citations

Part three: Doctor,espiritistaor psychiatrist?: Health‐seeking behavior in a Puerto Rican neighborhood of New York city

1977 • 111 citations

Factors Associated with Patient Evaluation of Health Care

1975 • 110 citations

a model of illness treatment decisions in a Tarascan town

1980 • 99 citations

Medical anthropology and international health planning

1977 • 98 citations

A review of the literature on access and utilization of medical care with special emphasis on rural primary care

1981 • 95 citations

The Differential Use of Medical Resources in Developing Countries

1971 • 94 citations

Thai “injection doctors”

1970 • 90 citations

The role of traditional healers in mental health care in rural India

1979 • 89 citations

Medical systems in Ghana: A study in medical sociology

1976 • 83 citations

The quest for therapy in lower Zaire

1979 • 82 citations

A sociology of health

1977 • 81 citations

The symptom iceberg: A study of community health

1979 • 79 citations

Choosing among therapies: Illness behavior in the Ivory Coast

1981 • 77 citations

Language and communication barriers for health delivery to a minority group

1976 • 77 citations

Popular and Modern Medicine in Mestizo Communities of Coastal Peru and Chile

1955 • 76 citations

Ethnic Origins, Educational Level, and Responses to a Health Questionnaire

1961 • 76 citations

A Social Indicator of Access to Medical Care

1975 • 75 citations

Urban Illness: Physicians, Curers and Dual Use in Bogota

1969 • 74 citations

Stages in health-seeking: A descriptive model

1979 • 74 citations

Disease classification in rural Ghana: Framework and implications for health behaviour

1981 • 69 citations

Changing Folk Beliefs and the Relativity of Empirical Knowledge

1952 • 68 citations

The study of disease in relation to culture

1972 • 67 citations

Modern Medicine and Folk Cognition in Rural India

1965 • 64 citations

Medical systems in Ghana : a study in medical sociology

1975 • 64 citations

Medical Care in Developing Countries

1967 • 63 citations

Self Perception of Sickness and the Seeking of Medical Care

1969 • 62 citations

Physical access and utilization of health services in rural Guatemala

1981 • 62 citations

The Implications of Technological Change for Folk and Scientific Medicine¹

1957 • 60 citations

An analysis of lay medicine.

1973 • 58 citations

Individual Decisions to Undertake Psychotherapy

1958 • 50 citations

Medico-cultural conflicts in Asian settings: An explanatory theory

1975 • 49 citations

Pills Against Poverty: A Study of the Introduction of Western Medicine in a Tamil Village.

1981 • 49 citations

On the Analysis of Ambulatory Utilization

1979 • 48 citations

Health Behavior in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Guatemalan Example

1966 • 48 citations

The place of indigenous and western systems of medicine in the health services of India

1981 • 46 citations

Patientsʼ View of Medical Practice

1962 • 46 citations

Non-use of physicians: Methodological approaches, policy implications, and the utility of decision models

1981 • 46 citations

Salient issues in choosing a new doctor

1982 • 44 citations

Lexemic change and semantic shift in disease names

1979 • 43 citations

Medical systems in Malaysia: Cultural bases and differential use

1975 • 43 citations

The interface of dual systems of health care in the developing world: Toward health policy initiatives in Africa

1979 • 41 citations

The Process of Medical Change in a Highland Guatemalan Town

1976 • 39 citations

Medical care as a commodity

1976 • 39 citations

The Logic of Behavior: Curing in a Maya Indian Town

1967 • 37 citations

CHOOSING AND CHANGING DOCTORS

1953 • 36 citations

Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Cross-Cultural Health Research

1962 • 35 citations

Utilization of health services in developing countries—Tunisia

1974 • 35 citations

An Index of Symptom and Disease in Zulu Culture

1963 • 35 citations

Rural dwellers and health care in Northern Nigeria

1981 • 35 citations

Western medicine and traditional healing systems: competition, cooperation or integration?

1976 • 32 citations

Comparison of Morbidity Interviews with a Health Examination Survey in Rural Africa *

1976 • 29 citations

Some Social and Attitudinal Correlates of Health Care Among Mexican Americans

1973 • 29 citations

STUDENT PRIZE PAPER: The Illnesses No Longer Understand: Changing Concepts of Health and Curing in a Rural Mexican Community

1977 • 28 citations

Modern Medicine and Medical Anthropology in the United States-Mexico Border Population

1979 • 27 citations

Access to medical care of migrants in a Honduran city.

1973 • 26 citations

The new late comers for antenatal care.

1970 • 26 citations

a natural system used in Mfantse litigation settlement

1976 • 25 citations

Illness and the Sick Role: An Evaluation in Three Communities

1970 • 24 citations

Health and Disease in Four Peruvian Villages. Contrasts in Epidemiology.

1969 • 23 citations

The characteristics of patients of spiritual healing homes and traditional, doctors in Southeastern Nigeria

1979 • 23 citations

The contribution of psychological and social phenomena to an understanding of the aetiology of disease and illness

1981 • 23 citations

Illness episodes, illness severity and treatment options in a pluralistic setting

1979 • 23 citations

Attitude toward different systems of medicine: A survey of four villages in the Punjab—India

1975 • 22 citations

Distribution and characteristics of non-government health practitioners in a rural area of Bangladesh

1981 • 22 citations

Access to Medical Care of Migrants in a Honduran City

1973 • 22 citations

Modern Medicine and Traditional Culture: Confrontation on the Malay Peninsula

1965 • 21 citations

Functional analysis of health needs and services

1973 • 21 citations

Indigenous medical systems and child bealth

1960 • 21 citations

The utilization of traditional medicine— A Malaysian example

1980 • 20 citations

Rural health development in Tanzania

1980 • 18 citations

Familism and hospital admission in rural Nigeria—a case study

1981 • 17 citations

Use of Hypothetical Situations in a Study of Spanish American Illness Referral Systems

1970 • 16 citations

Socio-economic characteristics of an Amazon urban healer's clientele

1981 • 16 citations

Place of the Indigenous and the Western Systems of Medicine in the Health Services of India

1979 • 16 citations

Doctors and society: A Northern Thailand study

1982 • 15 citations

Self-care in rural areas of India and Nepal

1979 • 15 citations

Health and culture in a South Indian village

1979 • 15 citations

Communication between peasant and doctor in tunisia

1977 • 15 citations

Organization of Health Services

1971 • 14 citations

A SURVEY OF THE INCIDENCE OF SELF-MEDICATION.

1965 • 13 citations

Communication problems between rural Mexican-American patients and their physicians: Description of a solution.

1972 • 13 citations

Socio-economic theory and practice in health care delivery

1978 • 13 citations

Who shops for medical care in a southern rural community--how much and why.

1979 • 12 citations

HEALTH AND DISEASE IN FOUR PERUVIAN VILLAGES. CONTRASTS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

1969 • 11 citations

Competing Health Care Systems in an Inner City Area

1975 • 11 citations

The Traralgon Health and Illness Survey Part 2: Prevalence of Illness and Use of Health Care

1974 • 10 citations

Class, familism and utilization of health services in Durango, Mexico: A replication

1981 • 10 citations

Some Problems in the Collection and Analysis of Morbidity Data Obtained from Sample Surveys

1959 • 10 citations

Morbidity measurement in household surveys in developing areas

1979 • 9 citations

The Definition of the Hospital Catchment Area and its Population as a Denominator for the Evaluation of Hospital Returns in Developing Countries

1973 • 8 citations

Attitude towards modern and traditional medicine in an Iranian community

1979 • 8 citations

The Traralgon Health and Illness Survey; Method, Organization and Comparison with other Australian Surveys

1973 • 8 citations

Current and future issues for medical social scientists in less developed countries

1981 • 8 citations

Tradition in transition. A health opinion survey in Ibadan, Nigeria.

1965 • 7 citations

Working With People of Different Cultural Backgrounds

1957 • 7 citations

Medizin in Entwicklungsländern

1987 • 7 citations

Utilization of services of community health workers by the rural population.

1980 • 6 citations

Health decision making in developing nations: A comparative analysis of Colombia and Iran

1978 • 6 citations

[Self-treatment by patients prior to consultation with general practitioner].

1976 • 4 citations

Health decision making in developing nations: A comparative analysis of Colombia and Iran

1978 • 3 citations

Alternative Methods for Determining Resource Requirements: The Chile Example

1976 • 3 citations

A Study Concerning Health Needs in Rural Korea

1974 • 2 citations

Hospital assistants in Malaysian rural health care.

1978 • 2 citations

Under and over demand and the use of personal health services: the problem of differential accessibility.

1976 • 2 citations

Structure Analysis for Regional Hospital Pianning—A Contribution Towards Measurement of Needs and Efficiency as a Prerequisite for Health Planning

1973 • 1 citations

A study on the utilization of primary health centre and sub-centre health services by the rural people of Miraj Taluka, Maharashtra.

1977 • 1 citations

Effect of Rural-Urban Migration on Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Disease and Medicine in Southern Peru

1976 • 1 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations