<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article shows that “not chosen” experiences of non-take up to healthcare, having multiple implications for people and remaining unanswered from the social protection and health system, create a paradoxical situation. The result, among the people concerned, is a destabilization of representations of system, conducive to the construction of criticisms and reactions leading people to keep, voluntarily and by different means, at a distance from certain health and social offers.</p></abstract>

This article shows that “not chosen” experiences of non-take up to healthcare, having multiple implications for people and remaining unanswered from the social protection and health system, create a paradoxical situation. The result, among the people concerned, is a destabilization of representations of system, conducive to the construction of criticisms and reactions leading people to keep, voluntarily and by different means, at a distance from certain health and social offers.

When Multiple Implications of Non-Take-Up to Healthcare Catalyze a Critique of the Health and Social System

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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This article shows that “not chosen” experiences of non-take up to healthcare, having multiple implications for people and remaining unanswered from the social...

When Multiple Implications of Non-Take-Up to Healthcare Catalyze a Critique of the Health and Social System

Published Online: Jul 20, 2021

Page range: 221 - 239

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0016

Keywords
Non-take up of healthcare, practical and symbolic consequences, criticisms, voluntary non-take up

© 2021 Héléna Revil, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

When Multiple Implications of Non-Take-Up to Healthcare Catalyze a Critique of the Health and Social System

Published Online: Jul 20, 2021

Page range: 221 - 239

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0016

KeywordsNon-take up of healthcare, practical and symbolic consequences, criticisms, voluntary non-take up

© 2021 Héléna Revil, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Non-take up of healthcare, practical and symbolic consequences, criticisms, voluntary non-take up