Established in 1971, ParticipACTION was a social marketing company created to change the physical behaviour and personal views of Canadians through persuasive marketing techniques and re-enforced mass media branding. Charting the personal accounts of four influential historical actors, this paper explores the original motivations behind the establishment of ParticipACTION. Through oral history accounts, untapped archival records pulled from the ParticipACTION Archives, and government documents, this article follows the development of the ParticipACTION brand and its relationship with a nation of media consumers. The overt commodification of health, manipulation of Cold War fears, and the federal government’s behaviour modification agenda ar...
The post war history of public health and the role of smoking within that history epitomises the ten...
Purpose: Child sponsorship programs have been accused of representing children from the developing w...
Social marketing is the latest public health strategy deployed against a wide range of health impera...
Between 1971 and 1999, ParticipACTION, Canada’s Health Promotion agency, reached into Canadian homes...
Abstract Background This paper provides a brief overview of the Canadian physical activity communica...
The ‘social determinants of health’ (SDOH) approach in Canada is widely acknowledged as having emerg...
This study develops a critique of approaches to persuasive social change known as social marketing. ...
The concept of broad-based public participation is a fundamental element of health promotion and ci...
The idea of health promotion predates the use of the actual term. However, the incorporation of this...
In public health, prevention is a fundamentally political process as both the selection of problems ...
The Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion defines health promotion as "the process of enabling people...
On the front cover, Ronald McDonald and various other colonizers of children’s fantasy life picnic i...
Health campaigns now use striking visual and verbal imagery and the full resources of the mass media...
A comparative case study was undertaken to determine the market orientation and the level of sophist...
Evaluation of the original ParticipACTION campaign effects focused on individual awareness, recall, ...
The post war history of public health and the role of smoking within that history epitomises the ten...
Purpose: Child sponsorship programs have been accused of representing children from the developing w...
Social marketing is the latest public health strategy deployed against a wide range of health impera...
Between 1971 and 1999, ParticipACTION, Canada’s Health Promotion agency, reached into Canadian homes...
Abstract Background This paper provides a brief overview of the Canadian physical activity communica...
The ‘social determinants of health’ (SDOH) approach in Canada is widely acknowledged as having emerg...
This study develops a critique of approaches to persuasive social change known as social marketing. ...
The concept of broad-based public participation is a fundamental element of health promotion and ci...
The idea of health promotion predates the use of the actual term. However, the incorporation of this...
In public health, prevention is a fundamentally political process as both the selection of problems ...
The Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion defines health promotion as "the process of enabling people...
On the front cover, Ronald McDonald and various other colonizers of children’s fantasy life picnic i...
Health campaigns now use striking visual and verbal imagery and the full resources of the mass media...
A comparative case study was undertaken to determine the market orientation and the level of sophist...
Evaluation of the original ParticipACTION campaign effects focused on individual awareness, recall, ...
The post war history of public health and the role of smoking within that history epitomises the ten...
Purpose: Child sponsorship programs have been accused of representing children from the developing w...
Social marketing is the latest public health strategy deployed against a wide range of health impera...