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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

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•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”.

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  • Dao, Amy, 2020. "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," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 266(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:266:y:2020:i:c:s0277953620305542
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113335
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