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Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do : Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Welch, Wendy.; Morgan, Alan.
2023
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Title
Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do : Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Author
Welch, Wendy.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780821447864
9780821425022
Published
Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2023.
Copyright
©2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (317 pages).
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.196241440097568
Summary
This collection of first-person accounts by doctors, nurses, and others at the front lines in Appalachia explains how rural communities have responded to COVID-19, addresses stereotypical assumptions about and challenges within rural medical care, and describes burnout and other long-term effects of the pandemic on health-care workers.
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Morgan, Alan.
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Title Page
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Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Background
1. Rural Medicine Retrospective: An Overview of the Challenges Rural Hospitals Faced Prepandemic
2. Good Hygiene in Bad Times
3. The Perfect Storm, the Perfect Solution?: COVID-19 and Telehealth
4. Bracing Early for a Delayed Impact: How Appalachia's COVID-19 Timelines Affected Health System Bottom Lines
Part 2. Stories
5. Passover
6. Working in the Hospital in the Early Days of the Pandemic
7. Shadrach, Sparrows, and Me
8. I Am Responsible for the People Who Are Responsible
9. Isolation, Denial, and Appalachia's Greatest Public Threat
10. The Mask Makers: How Women in Appalachia Were Empowered through Sewing during the COVID-19 Response
11. We Already Knew We Were Mortal: Cancer Patients in the Pandemic
12. Nursing While Black
13. Trust Comes Late
Part 3. Impact
14. The Two-Sided Pandemic: Mental Health and Racism before and during COVID-19
15. COVID-19's Enduring Impact on Medical Education: An Appalachian Case Study
16. COVID-19 and Type 2 Diabetes: A Seesaw of Reckoning
17. Substance Use Disorder during COVID
18. The Race to Vaccinate
19. Variants, Vaccines, and Vacations
Contributors
Index.

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