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Autore: | Welch Wendy |
Titolo: | Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do : Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Pubblicazione: | Athens, OH : , : Ohio University Press, , 2023 |
©2023 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
Disciplina: | 362.1962/41440097568 |
Soggetto topico: | COVID-19 - epidemiology |
Rural Health Services | |
Health Personnel - psychology | |
Burnout, Professional | |
Health Services Accessibility | |
Social Determinants of Health | |
Soggetto geografico: | Appalachian Region epidemiology |
Altri autori: | MorganAlan |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do |
ISBN: | 0-8214-4786-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910838376803321 |
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