title: 'It's not that bad': Stigma, health, and place in a post-industrial community.
abstract: This article highlights the importance of dissecting the complex relationship between stigma, health, and place. Drawing on qualitative research with young people in a post-industrial town in the UK, I explore how these young people reflect on their broad sense of health in a stigmatized community. I capture the multiple senses of place experienced by young people and how they come to imagine, negotiate, resist, and accommodate this stigmatization. I conclude by unpacking what implications place-based stigma has for policy as well as for studying young people's health and wellbeing.
authors.affiliation: Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WT, UK. Electronic address: thomasg23@cf.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Gareth M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D057545:Social Stigma; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Health; Place; Stigma; Wellbeing; Young people