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“A Study of Health Care Services and Facilities
In the Southern Appalachians”
Council of the Southern Mountains
1955
TAGS: Southern Appalachian region health care services and facilities, Council of the Southern Mountains, Perly F. Ayer, Tuskegee Institute, Adella Shields, Lewis W. Jones, 1955, hospitals, physicians, dentists, nurses
MEDICAL 1955 Health Care Services and Facilities in the Southern Appalachian Region
One of the first systematic studies of health resources of the Southern Appalachian area, this 30-page booklet assumes that “Southern Appalachia is an entity; that it is different. This difference, it is suggested in the study, should be the object of social research of the most penetrating type.” Robert M. Metcalfe, M.D, Council of the Southern Mountains, was appointed to direct the study that covered a nine-state area:
The Council is pleased to make this survey [on health care services and facilities, 1955] available to all who have an interest in health problems. In addition to the information summarized in this printed report, statistical details for each of the 257 counties in the nine states area are available in the files of the Council of the Southern Mountains.
P.F. Ayer, Ex. Dir., Council of the Southern Mountains, Berea College
CONTENTS
REPORT TO COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS
P.F. AYERS, Executive Secretary
on
HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND FACILITIES IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION
by
RURAL LIFE COUNCIL, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
LEWIS W. JONES, Director of Research
ADELLA R. SHIELDS, Research Assistant
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I | The Southern Appalachians | page 6 |
CHAPTER II | Health Conditions in the Region | page 10 |
CHAPTER III | Physicians, Dentists, and Nurses | page 14 |
CHAPTER IV | Hospitals and Other Institutional Health Care Services | page 22 |
CHAPTER V | Distribution of Health Care Services | page 25 |
APPENDIX I | Sources of Data | page 30 |
GALLERY
“A STUDY OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND FACILITIES IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS”
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