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

• Autore: Welch Wendy
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II