Everyday disease diplomacy: an ethnographic study of diabetes self-care in Vietnam.

Background: Understanding people's subjective experiences of everyday lives with chronic health conditions such as diabetes is important for appropriate healthcare provisioning and successful self-care. This study explored how individuals with type 2 diabetes in northern Vietnam handle the everyday life work that their disease entails.

Methods: Detailed ethnographic data from 27 extended case studies conducted in northern Vietnam's Thái Bình province in 2018-2020 were analyzed.