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Fifty-one older people (26 of them women) in the Republic of Ireland were interviewed using a semi-structured schedule on their health and illness experiences at three different time points in their lives; as children, as young adults and presently. Of particular interest were their views about the causes of heart disease, cancer and tuberculosis and their experiences of the prevailing health care system during their lifetime. Participants were recruited by letter from a database of respondents to a previous national quantitative survey of older people. Of 247 people originally contacted 127 (51%) responded by letter and 51 of these took part in the interview study. Data were analysed according to principles of content analysis using NUD.IST software. Reported ideas about causes of illnesses were multicausal. These were categorised as behavioural, biological, psychosocial or other explanations. While respondents placed most emphasis on behavioural explanations, this was accompanied by more complex views and critical questioning of formal health education messages. There was a strong allegiance to current biomedical concepts and practices. This appeared to be explained in part by reported negative experiences of health care treatments during childhood, particularly in hospitals, now perceived to be much improved. Advances in biomedicine were discussed with accounts of benefits received or observed by participants. An analysis of the history of health services in Ireland suggests that some of the attitudes reported reflect the experiences of the respondents as a generation rather than as older people per se and hence highlights the impact of public policy on people's experiences of and attitudes toward health and health care systems. r

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“…QSR. NUDIST (Richards & Richards, 1994) was used in the development of a category system and for data coding.…”

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confidence: 99%

Concepts of illness causation and attitudes to health care among older people in the Republic of Ireland

MacFarlane

Kelleher

2002

Social Science & Medicine

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“…The software NUD*IST V6 was used to aid the coding, organization, and searching of narrative sections from each interview (Richards & Richards, 1994). NUD*IST enabled sections about themes across a range of interviews to be compared and linked for a systematic analysis.…”

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“The Old Me Could Never Have Done That”: How People Give Meaning to Recovery Following Depression

Ridge

Ziébland

2006

Qual Health Res

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“…This article contributes to theory-building (Dyer and Wilkins, 1991;Yin, 1994) through an analytical approach that allows the tunnellers to tell their own story. The actual process of analysis was an iterative and, at times, intuitive one where apparent themes noted in the analytic phases were then sought for both verification and contradiction in the data in the post-field phase (see Richards and Richards, 1994).…”

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Pit sense: Appropriation of practice-based knowledge in a UK coalmine

Kamoche

Maguire

2010

Human Relations

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Pit sense is a form of knowledge constituted by tunnellers as a way to navigate and assess risk. We discuss how this form of tacit knowledge that was situated in everyday practices came under threat when management introduced more bureaucratic procedures rationalized on the basis of commercial outcomes and health and safety. Yet, while managers were prone to vilify pit sense even though they had grown up with it earlier in their career, they were prepared to turn a blind eye to it as long as it delivered 'yardage'. We examine the implications of this managerial ambivalence towards pit sense, and demonstrate how, rather than seeking to codify tacit knowledge in order to ensure its diffusion as the literature proposes, the bureaucratization of procedures and work practices not only challenged the legitimacy of pit sense, but also cast pit sense and formalized procedures into an uneasy alliance.

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Concepts of illness causation and attitudes to health care among older people in the Republic of Ireland

Concepts of illness causation and attitudes to health care among older people in the Republic of Ireland

“The Old Me Could Never Have Done That”: How People Give Meaning to Recovery Following Depression

Pit sense: Appropriation of practice-based knowledge in a UK coalmine

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