Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press
[2023]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009851333606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
