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Mechanic, David. “Health and Culture.” 1977 Medical and Health Annual, Encyclopaedia Britannica,
121-131, 1976.
Greenley, James R. and David Mechanic. “Social Selection in Seeking Help for Psychological Problems.”
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 17:249-262, 1976.
Mechanic, David. “Sex, Illness, Illness Behavior, and the Use of Health Services.” Journal of Human
Stress, 2:29-40, 1976; also published in Social Science and Medicine, 12:207-214, 1978.
Tessler, Richard, David Mechanic and Margaret Dimond. “The Effect of Psychological Distress on
Physician Utilization: A Prospective Study.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 17:353-364,
1976.
Mechanic, David. “The Use of Epidemiologic Methods as a Means for Advancing the Quality of Health
Care.” Proceedings: Conference on Professional Self-Regulation, DHEW, Health Resources
Administration, Publication No. (HRA) 77-621, 62-69, 1977.
Mechanic, David. “Social Factors Affecting Psychotic Behavior.” Research on Disorders of the Mind:
Progress and Prospects, Washington, D.C.: Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, DHEW Publication No. (ADM) 77-362, 46-
50, 1977.
Mechanic, David. “The Growth of Medical Technology and Bureaucracy: Implications for Medical Care.”
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly (Health and Society), 55:61-78, 1977.
Mechanic, David. “Behavioral Research in Medicine and Health.” Paper prepared for the annual Meetings
of the AAAS, Denver, February l, 1977.
Mechanic, David. “Illness Behavior, Social Adaptation, and the Management of Illness: A Comparison of
Educational and Medical Models.” The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 165:79-87,
1977.
Tessler, Richard and David Mechanic. “Factors Affecting Children's Use of Physician Services in a
Prepaid Group Practice.” Medical Care, 16:33-46, 1978.
Mechanic, David. “Approaches to Controlling the Costs of Medical Care: Short-Range and Long-Range
Alternatives.” The New England Journal of Medicine, 298:249-254, 1978.
Mechanic, David. “Prospects and Problems in Health Services Research.” The Milbank Memorial Fund
Quarterly (Health and Society), 56:127-139, 1978.
Mechanic, David. “Alternatives to Mental Hospital Treatment: A Sociological Perspective.” In Leonard I.
Stein and Mary Ann Test (eds.) Alternatives to Mental Hospital Treatment, New York: Plenum
Publishing Corporation, 309-320, 1978.
Mechanic, David. “The Medical Marketplace and Public Interest Law: Part I. The Medical Marketplace
and its Delivery Failures.” In Burton A. Weisbrod in collaboration with Joel F. Handler and Neil
K. Komesar, Public Interest Law: An Economic and Institutional Analysis, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 350-374, 1978.
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