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Review
. 2018 Jan-Mar;11(1):15-19.

Health marketing and behavioral change: a review of the literature

Cristina-Mihaela Chichirez  1 , Victor Lorin Purcărea  1
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Review

Health marketing and behavioral change: a review of the literature

Cristina-Mihaela Chichirez et al. J Med Life. 2018 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

Health marketing as a part of social marketing, must influence individuals, voluntarily, through various social programmes, in order to accept, reject, modify or abandon a behavior in favour of a healthier lifestyle. Acting on individual behavior change, social marketing can influence the behaviour of those who decide public policies, with positive effects in social change. In time, in order to understand and predict a behavior, a number of theories, models and tactics were developed with the aim to identify factors and mechanisms with the greatest impact in the changing process. Cognitive- social theories proved to be more effective, because they offer guidelines for conducting research in behavioral change.

Keywords: behavioral change; health marketing; lifestyle; social marketing.

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