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Shaping Our Appalachian Region (Soar): Beginning To Now, Samantha Zarycki
Shaping Our Appalachian Region (Soar): Beginning To Now, Samantha Zarycki
Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)
Introduction
Appalachian Kentucky has been and is currently facing difficult times including low employment rates, low education rates and less-than-favorable healthcare and health status for the people of the region (Estep, 2014). There have been multiple government and non-government agencies who have implemented interventions with the purpose of lifting up the region. Shaping Our Appalachian Region, or SOAR, is a bipartisan organization which began in 2013, and was established for the purpose of caring for the region.
Methods
A qualitative data analysis using confidential interviews with six people involved with SOAR was used for this project. Using the deductive approach …