Week 11- social marketing Flashcards
frequently used strategies in health promotion to improve the health and well-being of clients
Health communication, social marketing and advocacy
Health communication
Use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance healthConveys information using the various forms of mass media to create awareness and action.Population -> health behaviours -> concepts -> messages -> media -> channels
Goals of health communication
AwarenessUnderstandingAction
Health communication can:
Increase knowledge and awareness of health issuesInfluence attitudes that may lead to health actionsShow benefits of behaviour changeAdvocate a position on a health issueIncrease demand or support for specific health services
Health communication cannot:
Produce sustained change in health behaviours on its ownAddress all health issues or behaviours equally
Good Health Communication Campaigns Will…
Define the communication goalDefine the intended audienceCreate effective and targeted health messagesPretest and revise the materials and messagesImplement the campaign carefully
Types of Health Communication Campaigns
Persuasive or behavioural communicationRisk CommunicationMedia AdvocacyEntertainment educationInteractive health
Persuasive or Behavioural Communication
Includes efforts to persuade specific audiences to adopt an idea or practice. Includes social marketing techniques
Risk communication
Help people understand the nature and seriousness of a risk to make an informed decision about how to deal with the risk. “An interactive process of exchange of information and opinion among individuals, groups, and institutions”
Media advocacy
Use of mass media to advance a social or public policy initiative Shapes debate about the topic. Ensures issues include a public health perspective, emphasize the social, cultural, economic and political dimensions of health problems, and stress the importance of participation and empowerment in health promotion.
Entertainment education
Using entertainment channels and vehicles (television shows, radio dramas, comic books, theatre, etc.) to transmit persuasive messages and lessons about health or environmental issues.
Interactive Health Communication
Interaction of an individual consumer, patient, caregiver, or professional with or through an electronic device or communication technology to gain information about health.IHC=computer health enhancement systems, interactive computer games, and Web-based applications, including the Internet.
Steps in Developing a Health Communication Campaign - project management
step 1: project management
Steps in Developing a Health Communication Campaign – Pre-planning
step 2: revisit your health promotion strategystep 3: analyze and segment audiencesstep 4: develop inventory of communication resources
Steps in Developing a Health Communication Campaign – Planning
step 5: set communication objectivesstep 6: select channels and vehiclesstep 7: combine and sequence communication activities
Steps in Developing a Health Communication Campaign – message production
step 8: develop the message strategystep 9: develop project identitystep 10: develop materials
Steps in Developing a Health Communication Campaign – implementation
step 11: implement your campaign
Steps in Developing a Health Communication Campaign –evaluation
step 12: complete the campaign evaluation
Marketing is about Behaviour
Lower barriers and increase benefitsGoal is to influence!Internal: knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, perceived risks, consequence, self-efficacy.External:Access, actual risks, values, culture, policies
Commercial Marketing
Used in Private sector to influence people to:Buy somethingChoose something over something elseDo something*Product IdentityGoal for organization Higher salesIncreased Market shareCompany growth