The SAGE Handbook of Social Marketing

Gerard Hastings · Kathryn Angus · Carol Bryant

Nov 2011 · SAGE

About this ebook

For the first time, this benchmark handbook brings together a systematic framework and state-of-the-art thinking to provide complete coverage of the social marketing discipline. It presents a major retrospective and prospective overview of social marketing, helping to define and shape its current and future developments by:

- examining the defining elements of social marketing, their intellectual origins, evolution, current status and direction of travel;

- discussing how these have been used in practice, emphasising emerging areas and recent innovations; and

- setting the agenda for future research and development in the discipline.

For academics, this book will fill the gap in comprehensive social marketing literature, while being of interest to policymakers and post-graduate marketing and health studies students alike as it explores the idea that tools used to market fast-moving consumer goods and financial services can also be applied to pressing social problems.

About the author

Kathryn joined the Institute for Social Marketing (formerly the Centre for Social Marketing at the University of Strathclyde) in 2001. She has extensive experience in designing literature searches and conducting evidence-based reviews on a variety of public health and social topics. Over the past few years she has co-authored systematic and other evidence-based reviews for a range of funders on the effects of food promotion to children; the impact of alcohol marketing on young people; initiatives to change attitudes, knowledge and behaviour; young people and smoking; and initiatives to encourage individuals to use the outdoor environment for physical activity.