Branding as a Health Campaign Marketing Strategy
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Keywords
United States of America, Brands, Public health, Health services
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1108/13632540910931409
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of branding in public health campaigns.
Design/methodology/approach: The paper reviews public health campaigns, and their goals and objectives vis‐à‐vis the current health market conditions. The imperatives for branding public health campaigns are enumerated. The paper then discusses salient features of branding that can be applied to health campaigns before drawing on an exemplar to illustrate how branding can be effectively harnessed in the realm of public health campaign theorizing and praxis.
Findings: Given the clutter of campaigns and their messages in a saturated health consumer market, uptake and sustained use of health campaigns needs alternative pathways to keep consumers interested and gainfully engaged with the products being offered. Branding, as a communicative strategy, can meet this need.
Originality/value: As the fundamental goal of a public health campaign is to induce and sustain health behavior among the public, efforts must be kept up to theorize about improved modes of delivering campaign products to consumers. This paper takes the initial steps in that direction.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Communication Management, v. 13, issue 1, p. 77-91
Scholar Commons Citation
Basu, Ambar and Wang, Jian, "Branding as a Health Campaign Marketing Strategy" (2009). Communication Faculty Publications. 358.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/358
