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GenealogyPrevious research has shown that Appalachian Studies as a field, by drawing upon Appalachian Studies scholars and activists such as Harry Caudill, Helen Lewis, and Chris Irwin, misapplied the colonialism model to whites in the region, which resulted in ...
Jason Hockaday
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Rates of erosion and landscape change along the Blue Ridge escarpment, southern Appalachian Mountains, estimated from in situ cosmogenic 10Be [PDF]
, 2016 The Blue Ridge escarpment, located within the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina, forms a distinct, steep boundary between the lower-elevation Piedmont and higher-elevation Blue Ridge physiographic provinces.
Bierman, Paul R. +5 more
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Mountains, Mobilities and Movement
Mountain Research and Development, 2018 Reviewed: Mountains, Mobilities and Movement. Edited by Christos Kakalis and Emily Goetsch. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xxi + 290 pp. Hardcover: US$ 119.99, ISBN 978-1-137-58634-6. E-book: US$ 89.00, ISBN 978-1-137-58635-3.
Katherine E. Ledford
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Southern Spaces, 2009 Nancy Lowe approaches the idea of "single centers of creation" through salamander diversity in the Southern Appalachian mountains.
Nancy Lowe
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Southern Spaces, 2016 Carter Sickels reviews Robert Gipe's illustrated novel Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015).
Carter Sickels
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Analysis of Benzodiazepine Prescription Practices in Elderly Appalachians with Dementia via the Appalachian Informatics Platform: Longitudinal Study [PDF]
JMIR Medical Informatics, 2020 Background Caring for the growing dementia population with complex health care needs in West Virginia has been challenging due to its large, sizably rural-dwelling geriatric population and limited resource availability.
Niharika Bhardwaj +3 more
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Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
Southern Spaces, 2017 Historian E. James West interviews novelist and West Virginia native Ann Pancake, author of Given Ground (Lebanon, NH: The University Press of New England, 2001), Strange as this Weather Has Been (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press/ Shoemaker & Hoard ...
E. James West, Ann Pancake
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Understanding Barriers to HPV vaccine uptake in Appalachia [PDF]
, 2020 Every year in seven small counties of Ohio seventy-six people lose their lives to a completely preventable Human Papillomavirus-related cancer. These counties are not random, nor are they an anomaly.
Murphy, Michaela
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GeoHealth, 2023 Growing evidence indicates that extreme environmental conditions in summer months have an adverse impact on mental and behavioral disorders (MBD), but there is limited research looking at youth populations.
Luke Wertis +3 more
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