Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do : Appalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic / edited by Wendy Welch and Alan Morgan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Welch, Wendy, editor.

Morgan, Alan (Of National Rural Health Association), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Burn out (Psychology).

Appalachian Region--epidemiology.

Medical Subjects:

Appalachian Region--epidemiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

eng

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Welch, Wendy Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do

ISBN:

9780821447864

0821447866

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access