Residential mobility of middle-class and popular sectors: the city of Buenos Aires as an arrival destination

El artículo reflexiona acerca de los patrones de movilidad residencial de individuos y hogares de sectores populares y medios que residen en dos zonas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires configuradas en torno a patrones disimiles de segregación. La movilidad residencial es un lente privilegiado para evidenciar de qué modo la experiencia de la clase es producida y reproducida en los modos de habitar. Mediante un abordaje cualitativo y biográfico hemos analizado las especificidades que presentan las movilidades residenciales de los diferentes sectores sociales. Se identifican patrones en tres dimensiones de la movilidad residencial: su espacialidad, los arreglos residenciales que los hogares despliegan y las motivaciones que guían sus desplazamientos. Los hallazgos presentados dan cuenta de los efectos que produce la posición en la estructura social sobre la movilidad residencial, así como su interacción con la propia estructuración del espacio.The article reconstructs residential mobility patterns of individuals and households from popular and middle-class sectors residing in two areas of the city of Buenos Aires, configured around dissimilar segregation patterns. Residential mobility is a powerful lens to show how the social class experience is produced and reproduced in modes of dwelling. Through a qualitative and biographical approach, we analyzed the specificities presented by residential mobilities of different social sectors. We identified patterns in the three dimensions of residential mobility: spatiality, the residential arrangements that households employ, and the motivations that guide their movements. The findings show the effects that the position in the social structure has on residential mobility, as well as its interaction with the spatial structure itself.publishedVersionFil: Cosacov, Andrea. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales; Argentina.Fil: Cosacov, Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas; Argentina.Fil: Di Virgilio, María Mercedes. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigación Gino Germani; Argentina.Fil: Najman, Mercedes. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Di Virgilio, María Mercedes. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Najman, Mercedes. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigación Gino Germani; Argentina

'The family is part of the treatment really’ : a qualitative exploration of collective health narratives in families

Health professionals in primary care are increasingly being urged to ask about family history, and possibilities to use this information systematically to discuss illness prevention with patients are currently being explored (Qureshi et al., 2009). However, discussions about family history in a health care context can be problematic. Health professionals may focus on extracting numerical information and sideline contextual narratives. For example, in consultations about heart disease, general practitioners may concentrate on the number of affected relatives and how old they were when diagnosed, avoiding engagement with patients about why they thought their relatives had heart disease (Hall, Saukko, Evans, Qureshi and Humphries, 2007). Clinicians are increasingly asking questions about family history of illness, prompted by guidance (see e.g. Joint British Societies (2005)). The information they glean becomes part of decision making, such as the decision by the doctor to prescribe a statin to reduce cholesterol level in the blood and so reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, while the patient's understanding of their family history may influence the decision to take the statin or not (Frich, Ose, Malterud and Fugelli, 2006)