Global Health Learning Center

Social Marketing for Health

This is an all levels course offering CPH — Free
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Expires

CEU

CPH

Cost

Free

Time to Start

3-5 minutes

Length

2.00 hours

Overview

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Social marketing is a widely used and effective approach to changing behavior largely through promoting the use of healthy products and services.

Social marketing interventions can help achieve many goals: 

  • Improved healthy behavior
  • Increased availability of public health products and services
  • Increased range of available products and services at a variety of prices and variations
  • Reduced burden on the public sector by shifting clients with some ability to pay to the private sector
  • Increased program sustainability
  • Improved targeting of donor funding

This course will help you understand the key principles of social marketing, clarify misunderstandings, outline under which circumstances it is best used, and how social marketing, when employed effectively, can improve health outcomes.

What You'll Learn

  • Define social marketing and its fundamental attributes
  • Describe the social marketing process and how it is applied to program design and implementation
  • Understand the importance of using consumer insights to achieve effective social marketing programs
  • Identify the ways social marketing has been proven to improve health outcomes

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Information Technology Specialist
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Public Health Manager/Program Manager
Public Health/Preventative Medicine Physician

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