title: Designing social marketing strategies to increase African Americans' access to health promotion programs.
abstract: This qualitative study explored four key factors--source, message, channel, and target--for linking at-risk African Americans with health promotion programs. Among the findings from focus group discussions was that the use of the African American church to involve at-risk African Americans in health promotion programs may actually function as a barrier for some individuals. The study also suggests that use of a high profile person to deliver a message may be counterproductive to efforts to motivate people to use health promotion programs. The significance of these and other findings for designing more effective social marketing strategies to increase at-risk African Americans' access to health promotion programs are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Center for Intervention and Practice Research, School of Social Administration, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA. Larry.Icard@temple.edu
authors.forename: Larry D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Icard
authors.forename: Joretha N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Bourjolly
authors.forename: Nushina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Siddiqui
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D003153:Community Health Services; D003256:Community Participation; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012067:Religion; D040241:Social Marketing; D014481:United States