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Masks, misinformation, and making do : Appalachian health-care workers and the COVID-19 pandemic / edited by Wendy Welch ; foreword by Alan Morgan

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2023]Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 298 pages) : illustrations, mapsISBN:
  • 9780821447864
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780821425022. | 9780821425015. | Erscheint auch als: Masks, misinformation, and making do. Druck-Ausgabe. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2023]DDC classification:
  • 362.1962/41440097568 23/eng/20220914
LOC classification:
  • RA644.C67
NLM classification:
  • WC 506.4 AA6
Online resources:
Contents:
Rural Medicine Retrospective : An Overview of the Challenges Hospitals Faced Pre-Pandemic / Beth O'Connor -- Good Hygiene in Bad Times / Alli Delp -- The Perfect Storm, The Perfect Solution? : COVID-19 and Telehealth / Kathy Hsu Wibberly -- Bracing Early for a Delayed Impact : How Appalachia's COVID-19 Timelines Affected Health System Bottom Lines / Kathy Osborne Still -- Pass Over / Lynn Elliott -- Working in the Hospital in the Early Days of the Pandemic / Lucas Aidukaitis -- Shadrach, Sparrows, and Me / Tara Smith -- I Am Responsible for the People Who Are Responsible / Tammy Bannister -- Isolation, Denial, and Appalachia's Greatest Public Health Threat / Nikki King -- The Mask Makers : How Women in Appalachia Were Empowered through Sewing during the COVID-19 Response / Melanie B. Richards & Mildred F. Perreault -- We Already Knew We Were Mortal : Cancer Patients in the Pandemic / Monika Holbein -- Nursing While Black / Sojourner Nightingale -- Trust Comes Late : Two Nurses Describe Working COVID Floors / Wendy Welch and Kathy Osborne Still -- The Two-Sided Pandemic : Mental Health and Racism before COVID-19 / Darla Timbo -- COVID-19's Enduring Impact on Medical Education : An Appalachian Case Study / Jeffrey J. LeBoeuf -- COVID-19 and Type II Diabetes -- The Seesaw of Reckoning / Brittany Landore -- Substance Use Disorder during COVID / Clay Anderson -- The Race to Vaccinate / Rakesh Patel -- Variants, Vaccines, and Vacations / Laura Hungerford.
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"--PPN: PPN: 1928789714Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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