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The theory and practice of social marketing has steadily been gaining significance following its conception over four decades ago, and has since been adopted by an ever expanding group of practitioners, academics, researchers and policymakers in governments around the world. A key feature underlined in this work is how social marketing stands apart from other approaches to health promotion and disease prevention, environmental sustainability, safety and injury prevention and other topics, by searching for population level impacts that can be achieved by:

Using marketing techniques such as audience segmentation; Implementing product and service development; Realigning incentives and removing barriers to behaviour change; Increasing opportunities to practice healthier and more socially beneficial behaviours; Creating communication strategies to promote, encourage and support positive behaviour changes that ultimately benefit ...

Editor's Introduction: SAGE Series on Social Marketing

R.CraigLefebvre

I am delighted to be part of the team that has identified, acquired and reprinted key conceptual, practice and research articles in the field of social marketing. I am also grateful to SAGE Publications for selecting social marketing as a focus for a Major Work reference series, inviting me to guide its development, and for dedicating its resources to bring you six volumes of collective work by social marketers who are dedicated to changing the world for the better. This series is the first time that the peer-reviewed social marketing literature has been pulled together in one place. Our hope is that it will be a reference to your study and guide for your work in social marketing ...

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