Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Health Strategies During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2022-1002" target="_blank" >10.1515/humaff-2022-1002</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Health Strategies During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
Original language description
The topic of safeguarding against sickness grew in importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. People’s health was more at risk, yet not all had the same capacity and options to deal with it. Therefore, this article focuses on the under-researched topic of choice of strategies and individual practices for safeguarding against one’s sickness among micro-entrepreneurs (with 1–10 employees) before and during the pandemic, namely on the example of Czechia. We analyse 30 qualitative interviews with micro-entrepreneurs to demonstrate how their social location affects the attainability of strategies and individual practices for that purpose. It is primarily their family role (breadwinner vs caregiver) that, along with socioeconomic status, either limits or opens choices of strategies and individual practices or combinations thereof. Although the COVID-19 pandemic posed a high health risk to the entire society, it did not bring the micro-entrepreneurs to revise their often-risky choices in safeguarding against sickness. In contrast, it highlighted some specifics of micro-enterprises, e.g. their unclear organisational structure, which proved a high risk in the context of the health crisis.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TL03000670" target="_blank" >TL03000670: Precarity as the real experience of self-employed and micro enterprise</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Human Affairs
ISSN
1210-3055
e-ISSN
1337-401X
Volume of the periodical
34
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
56-70
UT code for WoS article
001073310300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85173953425