You get old, you get breathless, and you die: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Barnsley, UK
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2012-11Keyword
AdaptationAdult
Attitude to health
Coal mining
England
Female
Focus groups
Humans
Interviews
Male
Middle aged
Pulmonary Disease
Qualitative research
Smoking
Lung disease
Peer-Reviewed
YesOpen Access status
closedAccessAccepted for publication
2012-07-06
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We report patients, family members and health professionals' experiences of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Barnsley, northern England. A widespread belief that having "bad lungs" is part of normal ageing shapes everyday experience in this former mining town. People with COPD, and their families, link its cause to the areas industrial past and are sceptical of a medical orthodoxy that attributes cause to smoking. They doubt doctors' objectivity. Encouraging uptake of care, promoting smoking cessation, and developing care planning would be enhanced by engaging with the significance of place in the social narrative of health evident in this town.Version
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Small NA, Gardiner C, Barnes S et al (2012) "You get old, you get breathless, and you die": chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Barnsley, UK. Health Place. 18(6): 1396-403.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.07.004Type
Articleae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.07.004