title: Habitus, stress, and the body: the everyday production of health and cardiovascular risk.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Angus
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rukholm
authors.forename: Renée
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: St Onge
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Michel
authors.forename: Robert P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Nolan
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lapum
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D005843:Geography; D006184:Habits; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009864:Ontario / Q000453:epidemiology; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D012923:Social Class; D012931:Social Environment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data