The Obama Administration’s landmark health care reform legislation – the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – is again making headlines this week as the Supreme Court hears arguments challenging its constitutionality. On the agenda today – the individual mandate – one of the most contested and controversial parts of the law.
According to the Centers for Disease [...]
Posts Tagged 'health behaviors'
The Individual Mandate and Affordable Care Act – A Social Marketing Challenge?
Mar 27
by Christina Beckerman
Category: Behavior Change, Public Health, Social Marketing
SXSW Interactive: Innovating Health
Mar 15
by Cait Douglas
Category: HCSM
The past week my Twitter feed was overcome with South by Southwest, and my bookmarks are overflowing with blog posts to read on new innovations, ideas, and recaps. I was excited to see what came out of SxSW after reading this preview from Bloomberg on the prominence of health: South by Southwest Geekfest Veers From Social [...]
Social Media Week Event Wrap Up: The Impact of Social Media in Healthcare
Feb 15
by Lauren Belisle
Category: Behavior Change, HCSM, Ogilvy Washington, Social Marketing, Social Media
This morning we welcomed more than 100 social media and health enthusiasts to the Ogilvy Washington office for our social media week panel, The Impact of Social Media in Healthcare.
The panelists and audience discussed many facets of the same challenge: leveraging social to improve health.
A few highlights and common threads throughout the morning:
Using online [...]
Do the Strong4Life childhood obesity ads really stigmatize overweight kids?
Jan 11
by Trish Taylor
Category: Media, Public Health, Social Marketing
The question isn’t have you seen the latest childhood obesity ads from Strong4Life, but do you have an opinion to add to all of those floating around?
While there seems to be a general consensus in the dialogue about this controversial campaign, that these ads have missed the mark in being particularly effective from a behavior [...]
The Intersection of Cause Involvement and Behavior Change
Jul 16
by Jennifer Wayman
Category: Behavior Change, Best Practices, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ogilvy Washington, Social Marketing
When designing interventions for behavior change, the first things that usually come to mind are how to remove the barriers to action, how to increase self-efficacy, or even if the external conditions are favorable for the adoption of the desired behavior. Not often do we consider that involvement in causes can actually trigger individual behavior [...]
Wake-up calls and lifestyle changes
May 24
by Lauren Belisle
Category: Behavior Change
Yesterday’s Los Angeles Times featured a great article about behavior change entitled “Why are unhealthy people so reluctant to change their lifestyles?” In the article, Dr. Valerie Ulene, a preventive medicine specialist, examines just how much it takes for someone to adopt what she calls the three principles of healthy living: not smoking, five daily [...]
Women Are Strongest Believers in the Power of Supporting Causes
May 17
by Jennifer Wayman
Category: Behavior Change, Research + Insights, Social Marketing, Social Media
This post was originally posted to Ogilvy PR’s Womenology blog.
A recent study conducted by Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in partnership with the Center for Social Impact Communication at Georgetown University revealed the importance of supporting causes for women in the U.S.
8 in 10 women believe that supporting causes creates a sense of purpose and meaning [...]
How social are you when it comes to seeking health information online?
May 13
by Cara Perellis
Category: Public Health, Social Media
When it comes to sharing and/or looking for health information online, are you a social butterfly or a wallflower? New findings from the Pew Internet and Life Project’s The Social Life of Health Information 2011 survey were released yesterday, showing that online resources, including advice from peers, serve as a significant source of health information [...]
Did You Learn A Lot From a Dummy?
Jan 07
by Lauren Belisle
Category: Behavior Change, Public Health, Social Marketing
On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the results of a 2008 survey which found that that seat belt use has reached 85% among U.S. adults. Only 11% wore them in 1982, which was prior to the first state law requiring seat belt use.
Additional research released by CDC showed that non-fatal [...]
What is Social Marketing?
Sep 27
by Jennifer Wayman
Category: Social Marketing
I have been following a “discussion” on a social marketing listserv (soc-mktg@listproc.georgetown.edu) for the past week. What started out as a provocative question – “What do we, as social marketers, think of “Pavement Patty,” one tactic in a Vancouver driving safety campaign (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100908/od_yblog_upshot/canada-unveils-new-speed-bump-optical-illusions-of-children/print) – turned into yet another debate about the definition of social marketing.
This [...]
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