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Health Issues

 

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AIDS
Anglin, Mary K. “Stories of AIDS in Appalachia.” Back Talk from Appalachia:
  Confronting Stereotypes. Ed. Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001. 267-280. Rpt. of Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk from an American Region. 1999.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 306.097 C748
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 306.097 C748 (alt. title)
  Special Collections & Archives Berea Collection 306.097 C748 (alt. title)
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 306.097 C748 (alt. title)

Verghese, Abraham. My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the
  Age of AIDS. New York: Simon, 1994.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 362.196 V496m
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 362.196 V496m

Cancer
Couto, Richard A., Nancy K. Simpson, and Gale Harris, eds. Sowing Seeds in the
  Mountains: Community-Based Coalitions for Cancer Prevention and Control. Washington: Natl. Cancer Inst., 1994.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 614.44 S731
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 614.44 S731

Toborg, Mary A. An Assessment of Tobacco Prevention and Control Materials Used in
  the Appalachian Mountain Region. Landover, MD: Toborg Assoc., Inc., 1997.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 362.296 T629a

Death and Dying
Crissman, James K. Death and Dying in Central Appalachia: Changing Attitudes and
  Practices. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1994.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 393.097 C932d

Heart Disease
Ramsey, Priscilla W., and L. Lee Glenn. “Risk Factors for Heart Disease in Rural
  Appalachia.” Family and Community Health 20 (1998): 71-82.
  Hutchins Library Bound Periodicals Periodical F

Mental Health
Keefe, Susan Emley. Appalachian Mental Health. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1988.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 362.204 A646
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 362.204 A646

Looff, David H. Appalachia’s Children: The Challenge of Mental Health. Lexington: UP
  of Kentucky, 1971.
  Hutchins Library 3rd Floor 618.9289 L863a
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 618.9289 L863a

Obesity
Wright, Jessica Gamponia. “Physical Activity Among West Virginians: Bridging
  Barriers to Promote Health.” Inside West Virginia: Public Policy Perspectives for the 21st Century. Ed. Bruce Keith and Ronald C. Althouse. Morgantown: West Virginia UP, 1999. 27-39.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 306.097 I59

Sexual Health
Cavender, Anthony, and Steve Crowder. “White-Livered Widders and Bad-Blooded Men:
  Folk Illness and Sexual Disorder in Southern Appalachia.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 11 (2002): 637-649.
  Link to article

Tobacco
Horn, Kimberly A., Xin Gao, Geri A. Dino, and Sachin Kamal-Bahl. “Determinants of
  Youth Tobacco Use in West Virginia: A Comparison of Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use” American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 26 (2000): 125-138.
  Link to article

Toborg, Mary A. An Assessment of Tobacco Prevention and Control Materials Used in
  the Appalachian Mountain Region. Landover, MD: Toborg Associates, 1997.
  Special Collections & Archives Mountain Collection 362.296 T629a

Women's Health
Jesse, D. Elizabeth, and Martha Raile Alligood. “Holisitic Obstetrical Problem
  Evaluation (HOPE): Testing a Theory to Predict Birth Outcomes in a Group of Women from Appalachia.” Health Care for Women International 23 (2002): 587-599.
  Link to article