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Habitus, Stress, and the Body: The Everyday Production of Health and Cardiovascular Risk

Jan Angus

University of Toronto

Ellen Rukholm

Laurentian University

Renée St. Onge

Sudbury & District Health Unit

Isabelle Michel

Sudbury & District Health Unit

Robert P. Nolan

University Health Network

Jennifer Lapum

University of Toronto

Sarah Evans

University of Toronto

The incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and the distribution of contributory risk factors are closely linked with social patterns of advantage and disadvantage. The authors conducted eight focus groups in urban, northern, and rural sites in Ontario, Canada. Participants were all at high absolute risk for or had been diagnosed with CHD. Analysis centered on habitus, which forms the pivotal link between the person and "place." The authors focused on participants' dialogue about stress because it dealt with the impingements of the social world and resultant constraints on health-related activities in everyday places. Participants described four types of places or social positions in their "stress talk": work-places, transitional spaces, gendered situations, and exclusions. Places can support or constrain health related activities in many ways. Habits and practices linked with stress by participants were enduringly associated with these contexts, suggesting that place, body, and health are inseparable and coconstituted.

Key Words: focus groups • heart disease • stress • place • health disparities

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 17, No. 8, 1088-1102 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1049732307307553
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