Cases in Health Care Marketing features 40 case studies that explore real-world scenarios faced by healthcare marketing executives. Divided into six sections, the book covers issues in Product, Brand & Identity Management; Marketing Communications; Marketing Management; Marketing Strategy & Planning; Environmental Analysis & Competitive Assessment. Useful as a stand-alone text or as a complement to any introductory text on healthcare marketing, Cases in Health Care Marketing challenges to reader to resolve the case through a series of questions at the conclusion of each study. Solutions are provided as part of a package of online instructor’s materials.

Cases in Health Care Marketingfeatures over 30 case studies that explore real-world scenarios faced by healthcare marketing executives. Divided into seven sections, the book covers issues in product development and portfolio analysis; branding and identity management; target marketing; consumer behavior and product promotions; environmental analysis and competitive assessment; marketing management; and marketing strategy and planning.

Essentials of Health Care Marketing, Fourth Edition will provide your students with a foundational knowledge of the principles of marketing and their particular application in health care. Moreover, the text offers a perspective on how these principles must shift in response to the changing environmental forces that are unique to this market.

Written from the perspective of the healthcare marketing professional, Health Care Marketing: Tools and Techniques presents a series of 39 essential marketing tools and demonstrates their application in the health care environment.Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in health care marketing or health care strategy, the tools cover a broad spectrum of topics including product development and portfolio analysis; branding and identity management; target marketing; consumer behavior and product promotions; environmental analysis and competitive assessment; marketing management; and marketing strategy and planning.Each chapter focuses on a specific marketing tool and can be read as stand-alone presentation of the topic. Step-by-step guidelines take the reader through techniques that range from time-tested marketing classics to new models that will undoubtedly become classics in time.

Directed specifically at the practicing marketing executive, Cases and Select Readings in Health Care Marketing integrates understandable explanations of marketing concepts, articles selected for topical timeliness and pragmatic value, and case studies illustrating the detail and complexity of market decisions faced by today’s health care and human services marketing professional. Each chapter of this landmark volume includes a brief but thorough presentation of one conceptual area of marketing, which is then evaluated, analyzed, or demonstrated in selected articles written by prestigious and successful members of the marketing profession. Finally, a variety of extensive case studies follow which have been gathered to demonstrate further the service marketing profession at work. Many of these excellent cases were prepared especially for this volume and represent path-breaking treatments of such topics as health care marketing auditing, psychographic analysis, pricing in alternative delivery systems, promoting a public health service, and marketing planning for private colleges. Special offer from the editors: Buy Cases and Select Readings in Health Care Marketing and the authors will guarantee you a free written response--up to three pages--to your first inquiry about marketing your own organization!

Reflecting the fascinating and dramatic changes in pharmacy, pharmaceutical education, and the pharmaceutical industry in recent years, this authoritative volume focuses on the practice of marketing both prescription and nonprescription medications. In a dozen comprehensive chapters, author Mickey Smith highlights the economic social, and

Experienced healthcare marketers know that the traditional four Ps of business marketing (product, price, placement, and promotion) don't always translate into the world of healthcare marketing. In this practical guide, the authors address the importance of a different set of Ps (physicians, patients, payers, public, and the presence of politics) for building a solid foundation in healthcare marketing. Topics include: the history of healthcare marketing practices; physician, patient, and hospital interactions; alignment of strategic marketing efforts to the mission, vision, and values of an organization; ethics of healthcare marketing; stakeholders' roles in healthcare marketing; conflict management techniques; and the basics of a healthcare marketing plan. --

For today’s busy health care professional, clinical expertise is not enough: one also has to know the market. Even when a facility has its own marketing department, practitioners are regularly called on for input. From promotions to pricing, this book clearly and succinctly explains the range of marketing activities and techniques, so any health professional can learn to navigate this bewildering but increasingly important aspect of healthcare. Richard Thomas’ step-by-step guide for developing a marketing plan and carrying out a successful campaign offers a hands-on approach to proven methods for staying a step ahead of the healthcare marketing game.

"[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.