Mary A Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3661834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary A Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary A |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3058-2916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stigmatized Issues, Divergent Meanings
This article uses Liberia’s national mental health program to explore how stakeholders make meaning of their work and how those meanings intertwine with various powers to shape program outcomes. We use interview data to analyze how the Carter Center (an INGO), Liberian government, and local mental health practitioners understood the program to address this stigmatized, often-ignored health issue. INGO officials emphasized personal connections, vi…
Network power and mental health policy in post-war Liberia
This article traces the influence of network power on mental health policy in Liberia, a low-income, post-conflict West African country. Based on key informant interviews, focus group discussions and document analysis, the work uses an inductive approach to uncover how a network of civil society groups, government officials, diasporans and international NGOs shaped the passage, implementation and revision of the country’s 2009 and 2016 mental hea…
Investigating global mental health
This article outlines an agenda for political science engagement with global mental health. Other social sciences have tackled the topic, investigating such questions as the link between poverty and mental health disorders. Political science is noticeably absent from these explorations. This is striking because mental health disorders affect one billion people globally, governments spend only about 2% of their health budgets on these disorders, a…
The New Left and Health Care Reform in El Salvador
After a decade of civil war and four consecutive conservative administrations, El Salvador's leftist FMLN won its first presidential election in 2009. How has public policy changed under this New Left government, and why? This article addresses the question in the area of public health care. An alliance of health sector leaders with both technocratic and diplomatic abilities capitalized on the policy window opened by the FMLN's electoral victory …
The Final Frontiers of Healthcare Universalisation in Costa Rica and Panama
This article explains how Costa Rica and Panama, two Central American countries with nearly universal public healthcare programmes, have come to enjoy such broad coverage. It then describes the distinct paths each is taking towards reaching the populations still left out of healthcare coverage. Costa Rica is seeking to bring all residents under the umbrella of its ILO-style social security plan. Panama is targeting the rural poor with a package o…
The DR-Cafta and the Costa Rican Health Sector
Health Reform, Doctors, and the Physician Labor Market in Costa Rica
The medical profession is one of the key players in the social sector reforms that have swept Latin America in the last decade, yet we know very little about what motivates physicians’ political activity. This article explores the response of Costa Rican doctors’ organizations to health reforms and their collective interests more generally as expressed in the public arena during the last decade. I argue that organizations representing Costa Rican…
Retiring the State
Transnational Alliances and Development Policy in Latin America
In the 1980s, students and practitioners of the political economy of development in Latin America became enthralled with East Asia's spectacular economic performance. Researchers wrote cross-regional comparisons trying to discover where Latin America had gone wrong and how it could catch up to the “four dragons,” meaning South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong (see Deyo 1987; Gereffi and Wyman 1990; Haggard 1990). This quest to determine th…
Nontraditional Export Promotion in Costa Rica
In many Latin American countries during the 1980s, domestic elites joined with international development institutions to advocate structural adjustment policies as the solution to the region's "lost decade." Proponents of such policies sought economic rejuvenation based on export-led growth (ELG) strategies. The new ELG programs were to replace importsubstituting industrialization (ISI) schemes and complement traditional primary commodity exports…
Nontraditional Agricultural Exports in Latin America
After a decade of debt crisis and severe economic decline, countries throughout Latin America are seeking radical new treatments for their economic ills. Under pressure from internal political actors, international lending and aid agencies, or some combination of these, many Latin American countries are turning to outward-looking development strategies to stabilize their balance of payments and revitalize economic growth. Serving as the centerpie…
Record Forms for Public Health Nursing
Record Forms for Public Health Nursing Carl E. Buck, Mary A. Clark, Mabel C. DeBonneval, Anna A. Ewing, I. Malinde Havey, Carl Pomeroy, Katharine E. Pierce, Marion Randall, Maud Steeves, Louise M. Tattershall, Sophie C. Nelson, and Katharine Tucker CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.23.5.473 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Recording and Reporting for Child Guidance Clinics
Nontraditional Export Promotion in Costa Rica
In many Latin American countries during the 1980s, domestic elites joined with international development institutions to advocate structural adjustment policies as the solution to the region's "lost decade." Proponents of such policies sought economic rejuvenation based on export-led growth (ELG) strategies. The new ELG programs were to replace importsubstituting industrialization (ISI) schemes and complement traditional primary commodity exports…
The New Left and Health Care Reform in El Salvador
After a decade of civil war and four consecutive conservative administrations, El Salvador's leftist FMLN won its first presidential election in 2009. How has public policy changed under this New Left government, and why? This article addresses the question in the area of public health care. An alliance of health sector leaders with both technocratic and diplomatic abilities capitalized on the policy window opened by the FMLN's electoral victory …
The DR-Cafta and the Costa Rican Health Sector
The Final Frontiers of Healthcare Universalisation in Costa Rica and Panama
This article explains how Costa Rica and Panama, two Central American countries with nearly universal public healthcare programmes, have come to enjoy such broad coverage. It then describes the distinct paths each is taking towards reaching the populations still left out of healthcare coverage. Costa Rica is seeking to bring all residents under the umbrella of its ILO-style social security plan. Panama is targeting the rural poor with a package o…
Recording and Reporting for Child Guidance Clinics
Record Forms for Public Health Nursing
Record Forms for Public Health Nursing Carl E. Buck, Mary A. Clark, Mabel C. DeBonneval, Anna A. Ewing, I. Malinde Havey, Carl Pomeroy, Katharine E. Pierce, Marion Randall, Maud Steeves, Louise M. Tattershall, Sophie C. Nelson, and Katharine Tucker CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.23.5.473 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Nontraditional Agricultural Exports in Latin America
After a decade of debt crisis and severe economic decline, countries throughout Latin America are seeking radical new treatments for their economic ills. Under pressure from internal political actors, international lending and aid agencies, or some combination of these, many Latin American countries are turning to outward-looking development strategies to stabilize their balance of payments and revitalize economic growth. Serving as the centerpie…
Nontraditional Export Promotion in Costa Rica
In many Latin American countries during the 1980s, domestic elites joined with international development institutions to advocate structural adjustment policies as the solution to the region's "lost decade." Proponents of such policies sought economic rejuvenation based on export-led growth (ELG) strategies. The new ELG programs were to replace importsubstituting industrialization (ISI) schemes and complement traditional primary commodity exports…
Transnational Alliances and Development Policy in Latin America
In the 1980s, students and practitioners of the political economy of development in Latin America became enthralled with East Asia's spectacular economic performance. Researchers wrote cross-regional comparisons trying to discover where Latin America had gone wrong and how it could catch up to the “four dragons,” meaning South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong (see Deyo 1987; Gereffi and Wyman 1990; Haggard 1990). This quest to determine th…
Retiring the State
Health Reform, Doctors, and the Physician Labor Market in Costa Rica
The medical profession is one of the key players in the social sector reforms that have swept Latin America in the last decade, yet we know very little about what motivates physicians’ political activity. This article explores the response of Costa Rican doctors’ organizations to health reforms and their collective interests more generally as expressed in the public arena during the last decade. I argue that organizations representing Costa Rican…
The DR-Cafta and the Costa Rican Health Sector
The Final Frontiers of Healthcare Universalisation in Costa Rica and Panama
This article explains how Costa Rica and Panama, two Central American countries with nearly universal public healthcare programmes, have come to enjoy such broad coverage. It then describes the distinct paths each is taking towards reaching the populations still left out of healthcare coverage. Costa Rica is seeking to bring all residents under the umbrella of its ILO-style social security plan. Panama is targeting the rural poor with a package o…
The New Left and Health Care Reform in El Salvador
After a decade of civil war and four consecutive conservative administrations, El Salvador's leftist FMLN won its first presidential election in 2009. How has public policy changed under this New Left government, and why? This article addresses the question in the area of public health care. An alliance of health sector leaders with both technocratic and diplomatic abilities capitalized on the policy window opened by the FMLN's electoral victory …
Investigating global mental health
This article outlines an agenda for political science engagement with global mental health. Other social sciences have tackled the topic, investigating such questions as the link between poverty and mental health disorders. Political science is noticeably absent from these explorations. This is striking because mental health disorders affect one billion people globally, governments spend only about 2% of their health budgets on these disorders, a…
Network power and mental health policy in post-war Liberia
This article traces the influence of network power on mental health policy in Liberia, a low-income, post-conflict West African country. Based on key informant interviews, focus group discussions and document analysis, the work uses an inductive approach to uncover how a network of civil society groups, government officials, diasporans and international NGOs shaped the passage, implementation and revision of the country’s 2009 and 2016 mental hea…
Stigmatized Issues, Divergent Meanings
This article uses Liberia’s national mental health program to explore how stakeholders make meaning of their work and how those meanings intertwine with various powers to shape program outcomes. We use interview data to analyze how the Carter Center (an INGO), Liberian government, and local mental health practitioners understood the program to address this stigmatized, often-ignored health issue. INGO officials emphasized personal connections, vi…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Latin Americans (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Nursing (4 works)