title: What can health care marketing learn from bank marketing?
abstract: A useful technique in assessing opportunities for international marketers is called "lead lag" analysis. It suggests that one can predict developments, such as demand patterns, in one country by looking at an analogous country. Applying such a technique to the domestic scene, what could we predict about the development and application of marketing to the health care sector if we looked at an analogous service such as banking? Many experts believe that health care is following in the footsteps of banking and point to environmental similarities such as changes in government regulation, new forms of nontraditional competition, increased concern about retail sectors, and pressures on scarce resources. Are there lessons that health care marketers can learn from bankers that might help them avoid some false starts or expensive mistakes?
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising; D003132:Commerce; D006761:Hospitals; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011641:Public Relations; D014481:United States