Community-based prevention marketing: organizing a community for health behavior intervention

Health Promot Pract. 2007 Apr;8(2):154-63. doi: 10.1177/1524839906290089. Epub 2006 Aug 21.

Abstract

This article describes the application and refinement of community-based prevention marketing (CBPM), an example of community-based participatory research that blends social marketing theories and techniques and community organization principles to guide voluntary health behavior change. The Florida Prevention Research Center has worked with a community coalition in Sarasota County, Florida to define locally important health problems and issues and to develop responsive health-promotion interventions. The CBPM framework has evolved as academic and community-based researchers have gained experience applying it. Community boards can use marketing principles to design evidence-based strategies for addressing local public health concerns. Based on 6 years of experience with the "Believe in All Your Possibilities" program, lessons learned that have led to revision and improvement of the CBPM framework are described.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Adolescent Health Services*
  • Alcohol Drinking / prevention & control
  • Behavioral Research
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  • Child
  • Community Health Planning / organization & administration*
  • Community Participation*
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Florida
  • Health Behavior*
  • Health Care Coalitions
  • Health Promotion / methods*
  • Humans
  • Program Development
  • Program Evaluation
  • Smoking Prevention
  • Social Marketing*