ShowCase

The first collection of fully-researched case studies to enhance social marketing success, ShowCase features projects that have used social marketing to achieve real changes in behaviour.

PSI/Kenya insecticide-treated net social marketing programme

In 2002 the UK Department for International Development in Kenya commissioned the Population Services International (PSI/Kenya) for an intensive five-year effort to implement the world’s largest insecticide-treated net (ITN) social marketing programme. The programme’s mandate was to reduce the incidence of malaria, especially among pregnant women and children under five, by creating a culture of ITN use.

Infection control Children Pregnant women International

Change4Life

Change4Life is England’s first ever national social marketing campaign to reduce obesity. In designing it, the Department of Health and its agencies drew on academic and commercial sector expertise, behaviour change theory and evidence from other successful behaviour change campaigns, and commissioned a substantial and ongoing programme of research among the target audiences.

Obesity BME Families Pregnant women Wales England

Get Closer

In 2006/07, the Halton and St Helens area of Merseyside had one of the lowest breastfeeding initiation rates in the UK, at just 37.1 per cent. In response to this, the team at the local primary care trust named breastfeeding initiation as one of their key health priorities and formed a Breastfeeding Taskforce, which set out to understand the lifestyles and values of new mums and ensure their needs were met through the Get Closer social marketing programme.

Breastfeeding Parents Pregnant women Service providers North West

Quit for a New Life

NHS Stoke-on-Trent set out to reduce smoking in pregnancy rates in two high prevalence neighbourhoods – Meir and Bentilee. This was achieved through reconfiguring the existing ‘Quit For A New Life’ smoking cessation service and introducing a new style of peer support group (Me² stop smoking club), which focused on rewarding mums and giving them alternatives to the ‘me time’ that cigarettes can offer.

Smoking Pregnant women Service providers West Midlands

Give It Up For Baby

Give It Up For Baby is a partnership incentive scheme that supports smoking cessation in pregnant smokers. An incentive of £12.50 per week is paid for every week a woman demonstrates she is smoke-free throughout the pregnancy and for 3 months after the birth of the baby. The incentive is redeemed via a National Entitlement Card at local Asda supermarkets against fresh food and groceries.

Smoking Pregnant women Scotland

Vitality

Vitality is a holistic health and wellbeing service for South West Essex, which supports individuals to improve their health by making simple lifestyle changes.

The service was developed as a result of a research exercise to understand barriers to quitting smoking. However, this research identified that residents did not want a service directed only at smoking cessation. Instead they wanted a lifestyle programme that integrated healthy eating, smoking cessation, exercise and alcohol advice.

Obesity Physical activity Smoking Men Pregnant women Women South East

Breastfeeding learning demonstration site

This project aimed to increase exclusive breastfeeding at six to eight weeks among women who initiate breastfeeding, and to increase the length of time that mothers breastfeed (exclusively and partially) to six months and beyond.

Breastfeeding Children Men Parents Pregnant women South East