0576943 - SOÚ 2025 RIV DE eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Marková Volejníčková, Romana - Maříková, Hana - Pospíšilová, Marie - Švarcová, Markéta
Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Health Strategies During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Human Affairs. Roč. 34, č. 1 (2024), s. 56-70. ISSN 1210-3055. E-ISSN 1337-401X
Grant CEP: GA TA ČR TL03000670
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378025
Klíčová slova: health strategies * micro-entrepreneurship * COVID-19 pandemic * social location * Czech Republic
Obor OECD: Sociology
Impakt faktor: 0.4, rok: 2023
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
Web výsledku:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humaff-2022-1002/htmlDOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2022-1002

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.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0346318