Amy Dao
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 90409 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy Dao |
| NOMBRES | Amy |
| APELLIDO | Dao |
| FIRMA | DAO A |
| AFILIACIONES | California State Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0803-905X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Calculating care
Vietnam has implemented reforms in how health care is financed to provide patient financial risk protection. However, out-of-pocket payments remain high and insurance use is low relative to the country’s high population coverage rate. In this article, I argue that health insurance was not a pre-requisite for obtaining health care in Vietnam; rather, paying for care through health insurance was but one among many ‘medical routes’ for obtaining tre…
Imagining Health Insurance
Essay| October 30 2020 Imagining Health Insurance: Everyday Illustrations from Vietnam’s Campaign for Universal Health Coverage Amy Dao Amy Dao Amy Dao is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. She has published widely on global health and how culture shapes economic life. The images and ideas shared in this photo essay draw from a larger book project entitled Socializing In…
What it means to say "I Don't have any money to buy health insurance" in rural Vietnam
Cost is a well-established barrier to health insurance uptake. Although iterations of the phrase "I don't have any money to buy health insurance" are pervasive in research on the determinants of health insurance enrollment, its meaning is not universal. Through ethnographic immersion in Vinh Long Province and 34 semi-structured interviews collected from August 2015-September 2016, I show that being uninsured is not merely about the financial cost…
Unintentional Injury, Supervision, and Discourses on Childproofing Devices
Unintentional injury prevention research focuses on parental supervision as critical to reducing toddler injury. We examine how the promotion of childproofing-as a mode of supervision-sells mothers "peace of mind" while also increasing "intensive mothering" and the "privatization of risk." Drawing on the childproofing literature and meaning centered interviews with mothers of toddlers and childproofing business owners, we argue that the connectio…
Socioeconomic inequalities in self-reported chronic non-communicable diseases in urban Hanoi, Vietnam
This study measures and decomposes socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of self-reported chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in urban Hanoi, Vietnam. A cross-sectional survey of 1211 selected households was carried out in four urban districts in both slum and non-slum areas of Hanoi city in 2013. The respondents were asked if a doctor or health worker had diagnosed any household members with an NCD, such as cardiovascular diseases, c…
Socioeconomic inequalities in catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment associated with non-communicable diseases in urban Hanoi, Vietnam
Financial interventions to prevent catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment should target poor households, especially those with family members suffering from NCDs, with older members and those located in slum areas in Hanoi Vietnam. Potential interventions derived from this study include targeting and monitoring of health insurance enrolment, and developing a specialized NCD service package for Vietnam's social health insurance program
Toward an Anthropology of Insurance and Health Reform
This article introduces a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly on health insurance and health reform. We begin by reviewing anthropological contributions to the study of financial models for health care and then discuss the unique contributions offered by the articles of this collection. The contributors demonstrate how insurance accentuates-but does not resolve tensions between granting universal access to care and rationing limited r…
The Social Life of Health Insurance in Low- to Middle-income Countries
The following article identifies new areas for engaged medical anthropological research on health insurance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Based on a review of the literature and pilot research, we identify gaps in how insurance is understood, administered, used, and abused. We provide a historical overview of insurance as an emerging global health panacea and then offer brief assessments of three high-profile attempts to provide un…
Watching as an ordinary affect
The Social Life of Health Insurance in Low- to Middle-income Countries
The following article identifies new areas for engaged medical anthropological research on health insurance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Based on a review of the literature and pilot research, we identify gaps in how insurance is understood, administered, used, and abused. We provide a historical overview of insurance as an emerging global health panacea and then offer brief assessments of three high-profile attempts to provide un…
Toward an Anthropology of Insurance and Health Reform
This article introduces a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly on health insurance and health reform. We begin by reviewing anthropological contributions to the study of financial models for health care and then discuss the unique contributions offered by the articles of this collection. The contributors demonstrate how insurance accentuates-but does not resolve tensions between granting universal access to care and rationing limited r…
What it means to say "I Don't have any money to buy health insurance" in rural Vietnam
Cost is a well-established barrier to health insurance uptake. Although iterations of the phrase "I don't have any money to buy health insurance" are pervasive in research on the determinants of health insurance enrollment, its meaning is not universal. Through ethnographic immersion in Vinh Long Province and 34 semi-structured interviews collected from August 2015-September 2016, I show that being uninsured is not merely about the financial cost…
Calculating care
Vietnam has implemented reforms in how health care is financed to provide patient financial risk protection. However, out-of-pocket payments remain high and insurance use is low relative to the country’s high population coverage rate. In this article, I argue that health insurance was not a pre-requisite for obtaining health care in Vietnam; rather, paying for care through health insurance was but one among many ‘medical routes’ for obtaining tre…
Watching as an ordinary affect
Socioeconomic inequalities in self-reported chronic non-communicable diseases in urban Hanoi, Vietnam
This study measures and decomposes socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of self-reported chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in urban Hanoi, Vietnam. A cross-sectional survey of 1211 selected households was carried out in four urban districts in both slum and non-slum areas of Hanoi city in 2013. The respondents were asked if a doctor or health worker had diagnosed any household members with an NCD, such as cardiovascular diseases, c…
Socioeconomic inequalities in catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment associated with non-communicable diseases in urban Hanoi, Vietnam
Financial interventions to prevent catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment should target poor households, especially those with family members suffering from NCDs, with older members and those located in slum areas in Hanoi Vietnam. Potential interventions derived from this study include targeting and monitoring of health insurance enrolment, and developing a specialized NCD service package for Vietnam's social health insurance program
Toward an Anthropology of Insurance and Health Reform
This article introduces a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly on health insurance and health reform. We begin by reviewing anthropological contributions to the study of financial models for health care and then discuss the unique contributions offered by the articles of this collection. The contributors demonstrate how insurance accentuates-but does not resolve tensions between granting universal access to care and rationing limited r…
The Social Life of Health Insurance in Low- to Middle-income Countries
The following article identifies new areas for engaged medical anthropological research on health insurance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Based on a review of the literature and pilot research, we identify gaps in how insurance is understood, administered, used, and abused. We provide a historical overview of insurance as an emerging global health panacea and then offer brief assessments of three high-profile attempts to provide un…
Unintentional Injury, Supervision, and Discourses on Childproofing Devices
Unintentional injury prevention research focuses on parental supervision as critical to reducing toddler injury. We examine how the promotion of childproofing-as a mode of supervision-sells mothers "peace of mind" while also increasing "intensive mothering" and the "privatization of risk." Drawing on the childproofing literature and meaning centered interviews with mothers of toddlers and childproofing business owners, we argue that the connectio…
Imagining Health Insurance
Essay| October 30 2020 Imagining Health Insurance: Everyday Illustrations from Vietnam’s Campaign for Universal Health Coverage Amy Dao Amy Dao Amy Dao is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. She has published widely on global health and how culture shapes economic life. The images and ideas shared in this photo essay draw from a larger book project entitled Socializing In…
What it means to say "I Don't have any money to buy health insurance" in rural Vietnam
Cost is a well-established barrier to health insurance uptake. Although iterations of the phrase "I don't have any money to buy health insurance" are pervasive in research on the determinants of health insurance enrollment, its meaning is not universal. Through ethnographic immersion in Vinh Long Province and 34 semi-structured interviews collected from August 2015-September 2016, I show that being uninsured is not merely about the financial cost…
Calculating care
Vietnam has implemented reforms in how health care is financed to provide patient financial risk protection. However, out-of-pocket payments remain high and insurance use is low relative to the country’s high population coverage rate. In this article, I argue that health insurance was not a pre-requisite for obtaining health care in Vietnam; rather, paying for care through health insurance was but one among many ‘medical routes’ for obtaining tre…
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