What it means to say “I Don't have any money to buy health insurance” in rural Vietnam: How anticipatory activities shape health insurance enrollment

Amy Dao

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 266, issue C

Abstract: •Ethnographic case study of universal health coverage (UHC) implementation in Vietnam.•Five reasons why people do not buy health insurance. It is not just about money.•Being uninsured is justified through temporal and moral frames of anticipation.•Purchasing insurance competes with other anticipatory activities that deal with risk.•Contribution to the anthropological research on the “social life of health insurance”.

Keywords: Universal health coverage; Health insurance; Informal sector; Vietnam; Ethnography; Global health; Consumer behavior; Anticipation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113335

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