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 the pandemic on health-care workers.

About the author

Wendy Welch is the executive director of the Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education Consortium and the author, coauthor, or editor of six books, including Fall or Fly: The Strangely Hopeful Story of Foster Care and Adoption in Appalachia (also from Ohio University Press). She advocates for social justice in health care and other critical areas of development across Appalachia.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy (EDT) Welch
• Assisted by: Wendy Welch (Editor)
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2023
• EAN: 9780821425015
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2501-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies