Yangzhi Nicole Jiang, Seon-Woo Kim, Myoung-Gi Chon
{"title":"Dialogic communication and audience engagement in Hispanic health marketing on X: A computational analysis.","authors":"Yangzhi Nicole Jiang, Seon-Woo Kim, Myoung-Gi Chon","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2742766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2742766","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the overarching themes and dialogic features of the three national-level Hispanic health organizations (i.e., NHMA, NAHH, NHHF). The focus is on how these health organizations utilize social media for Hispanic health and how the themes and dialogic features are associated with public engagement on social media. To achieve this, the study employed structural topic modeling on 18,430 X posts from 2018 to 2023 and negative binomial regression to predict user amplification engagement (e.g., liking, sharing). The study identified four broad thematic areas: health equity and advocacy, health education and disease prevention, professional and organizational development, and research and community engagement. Negative binomial regression analyses showed that amplification engagement was associated with both communicative features and thematic contexts. Hyperlinks were negatively associated with likes and shares, while multiple interaction effects indicated that the associations between dialogic features and engagement varied across thematic contexts. These findings suggest that the effectiveness of X-based communication features depends on message topic rather than operating uniformly across health communication contexts. The study contributes to health marketing research by demonstrating how computational methods can identify the thematic and affordance-based conditions under which organizational health messages are more likely to generate public amplification in digital environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149184317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Johann Kolstee, Haoyi Wang, Sabine Reuter, Hanne M L Zimmermann, Kai J Jonas
{"title":"Design and results of the promotional campaign for the \"Understanding pre-exposure prophylaxis modalities for HIV prevention in European communities\" (PROTECT) survey.","authors":"Johann Kolstee, Haoyi Wang, Sabine Reuter, Hanne M L Zimmermann, Kai J Jonas","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2732799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2732799","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding how men who have sex with men, transgender and non-binary (MSMTNB) people can be engaged in HIV prevention research is critical for ongoing collaboration with these key communities. A campaign was developed in 2023 to market an online survey to European MSMTNB participants. Key campaign elements included: a project logo, a slogan, a cohesive and consistent design, a website, and images tailored to target groups for promotion across social media, dating apps and hard copy. 15,458 MSMTNB participants completed the survey, 55% via a link found on dating apps and 38% from social media. Promotion on dating apps (click through rate (CTR) = 9.0%) was more effective than on social media (CTR = 2.1%). However, participants were more likely to complete the survey had they arrived at the survey via social media advertisements. MSMTNB are not \"hard to reach\" communities if promotional efforts are targeted.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149040992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Dickens, Mark S Rosenbaum, David M Gligor, Serhiy Y Ponomarov
{"title":"When do patients co-produce? The roles of participation resources, transaction costs, and service outcomes in health care.","authors":"John Dickens, Mark S Rosenbaum, David M Gligor, Serhiy Y Ponomarov","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2732796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2732796","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent shifts toward patient-centered care position patients as active participants in health care delivery, yet limited empirical work explains when and why patients engage in co-production. Drawing on service-dominant logic and transaction cost theory, this study examines antecedents, constraints, and outcomes of patient co-production. Survey data from 482 U.S. patients reflecting on recent health care encounterstest a framework including patient expertise, perceived control, patient support resources, risk-taking, and benefits, with transaction costs as a moderator. Results indicate that perceived control, patient support resources, psychic benefits, and economic benefits positively influence patient co-production, whereas expertise and risk-taking do not. Transaction costs weaken the effects of perceived benefits on co-production, and co-production positively influences both patient satisfaction and repurchase intention.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149017859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health-driven choices: Brand equity, genital hygiene behavior, and menstrual product preferences among women.","authors":"Özen İnam, Belis Gülay, Tuğba Bozdemir","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2732794","DOIUrl":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2732794","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study had two complementary aims: to describe menstrual hygiene product preferences and related decision factors among participants in the present sample, and to examine whether genital hygiene behavior was associated with consumer-based brand equity. Data were collected from 205 women through an online survey using a descriptive information form, the Genital Hygiene Behavior Scale (GHBS), and the Consumer-Based Brand Equity Scale (CBBES). Menstrual product preferences were examined through descriptive statistics and group-comparison analyses, whereas hierarchical regression examined CBBES total score as the outcome variable after controlling for age and education. Disposable pads were most frequently reported, while menstrual cups and reusable options were rarely reported. GHBS total score was positively associated with CBBES total score, and the final model explained 17.2% of the variance. These findings suggest that genital hygiene behaviors may be associated with brand-related perceptions. In contrast, findings regarding menstrual product preferences should be interpreted descriptively and as comparisons between groups, rather than as evidence of a direct association.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148977989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Omar Alsodi, Mohammad Alhur, Nicholas Grigoriou, Mohamed M Mostafa, Francisco-Jesús Ferreiro-Seoane
{"title":"Business intelligence in health marketing and mental health: A structural topic modeling study.","authors":"Omar Alsodi, Mohammad Alhur, Nicholas Grigoriou, Mohamed M Mostafa, Francisco-Jesús Ferreiro-Seoane","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2696145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2696145","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mental health disorders represent a major global challenge, driving demand for scalable, evidence based strategies in early diagnosis, prevention, and population surveillance. Business intelligence (BI) research in this domain remains conceptually and methodologically fragmented, impeding interdisciplinary synthesis. This study investigates: the main themes in BI applications for mental health and healthcare over the past 30 years; patterns within and across abstracts of BI relevant articles, including integration potential; and themes with the strongest citation. By doing so, we contribute to health marketing scholarship by synthesizing fragmented BI applications into a Service-Dominant Logic SDL informed, market-shaping intelligence perspective. This reframing is an interpretive synthesis: it is informed by the STM findings and developed through their integration with established health marketing theory, rather than being a direct empirical output of the topic model. Using structural topic modeling (STM) on 2,227 peer reviewed articles from the Web of Science Core Collection (1990-2025), after PRISMA based screening of 20,634 records, the analysis reveals 20 latent topics that trace the evolution of BI, data mining, and dashboard analytics in mental health. We contribute to the literature by offering a novel perspective on Business Intelligence in health marketing, showing how fragmented analytical streams can be synthesized into a Service Dominant Logic informed Mental Health Intelligence Platform under conditions of interdisciplinary fragmentation and temporal evolution Results reveal a shift from individual psychological foci toward systemic, computational approaches underpinning Mental Health Intelligence Platforms (MHIPs). This study outlines a research agenda for empirically evaluating Mental Health Intelligence Platform MHIP designs in future health marketing research.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fitness Influencers as Health Communicators: Human Brand Positioning and Health Communication Strategies in Bangladeshi Influencer Marketing.","authors":"Monira Begum, Shohel Rana, Jubayer Hossain, Mahmood Menon Khan, Nadia Rahman","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2692298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2692298","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined human brand positioning and health communication strategies among Bangladeshi fitness influencers by analyzing 1,049 Facebook posts from 18 content creators. Findings revealed a dominant preference for ideality-focused positioning (84.4%) paired with self-efficacy messaging (77.2%), indicating that influencer identity and message strategy are structurally coupled. Chi-square analysis confirmed significant associations between brand positioning and communication strategies, <i>χ</i><sup>2</sup>(8, <i>N</i> = 1049) = 100.680, <i>p</i> < .001, Cramér's <i>V</i> = .22. Engagement analysis identified significant differences across strategies, <i>F</i>(4, 1032) = 10.023, <i>p</i> < .001, with attitude-focused content generating higher visible engagement; content strategy explained only 3.8% of variance, indicating that platform-structural factors outweigh message content in driving reach. Physical inactivity remains a major noncommunicable disease risk factor in Bangladesh, underscoring the public health significance of these findings. Integrating human brand theory with extended parallel process model-informed analysis, this study provides the systematic baseline for fitness influencer health communication in a Facebook-dominant South Asian context.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148377254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selling health or communicating care? A bibliometric mapping of health marketing communications.","authors":"The Anh Phan","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2688605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2688605","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the development of health marketing communications research through a bibliometric analysis of 171 articles indexed in Scopus within the Business, Management, and Accounting domain. Using Bibliometrix and Biblioshiny, the study maps publication trends, influential sources, collaboration patterns, and thematic development. The findings show that the field is anchored in health communication, health marketing, and social marketing, while stronger thematic streams have emerged around persuasion, message framing, prevention-oriented communication, and co-design. The study also highlights underdeveloped areas related to digital health, cultural context, and health equity, offering a foundation for future research in health marketing communications.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148340022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dental self-confidence in digital health marketing systems: Adolescent well-being and social media use.","authors":"Khaled Ibrahim, Lisa S McNeill, Li Mei","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2687296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2687296","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health marketing research has paid limited attention to how everyday digital platforms function as informal health marketing systems that shape adolescents' perceptions of appearance, self-worth, and treatment value. Positioning social media platforms as marketplace-mediated environments that produce health-related norms and consumer vulnerability, this study examines dental self-confidence (DSC) as a form of health-related market value among adolescents. Using data from 502 parent-child dyads in New Zealand and applying multivariate analysis and PLS-SEM, the findings show that lower dental self-confidence is associated with greater social and psychological impact (PI), with social impact operating as a key pathway. Active social media use was associated with a weaker protective DSC-PI association. This study extends health marketing theory by (a) conceptualizing dental appearance as a form of health-related market value, (b) positioning everyday digital platforms as informal health marketing systems, and (c) extending consumer vulnerability frameworks to adolescent health consumers navigating marketing-mediated appearance norms.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148319544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People with disabilities and Meta Humans: A review-based research note for transformative service researchers.","authors":"Xinyun Yan, Jörg Finsterwalder, Dean Sutherland","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2692297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2692297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rapid development of Meta Humans, i.e. Artificial Intelligence-based virtual assistants, has expanded transformative services opportunities for people with disabilities. This research note adopts a narrative literature review to explore how Meta Humans can enhance service experiences and wellbeing, while identifying opportunities and challenges in inclusive service contexts. This review scrutinized a total of 58 publications (N = 58) and identified three interrelated themes: (1) the application and impact of Meta Humans for people with disabilities, (2) the role of Meta Humans in transforming wellbeing and service experiences for people with disabilities, and (3) privacy, trust, ethics and inclusiveness of services by Meta Humans. Building on this background, this article proposes future Transformative Service Research directions relating to Meta Humans serving people with disabilities. It aims to stimulate academic discussion on how Meta Humans can advance digital inclusion and social participation and provide theoretical guidance for ethical policy formulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148302911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring signaling and health beliefs in social media influencer communication on obesity management medications.","authors":"Rumaila Abbas, Vidhi Sharma","doi":"10.1080/07359683.2026.2687299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2687299","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social media discourse surrounding obesity management medications (OMMs) has generated significant public attention, driven largely by celebrities and influencers sharing narratives about their use. However, much of this influencer-generated content remains underexamined, raising concerns about how health beliefs are communicated within sociocultural narratives. This study examines how medical and patient influencers communicate health beliefs about OMMs through signals embedded in their content. Using a qualitative content analysis informed by netnographic principles, 213 YouTube video transcripts by medical and patient influencers were analyzed. Drawing on the health belief model and signaling theory, the study identifies key communicative signals within influencer discourse. Findings reveal that medical influencers emphasize evidence-based signals, while patient influencers foreground experience-based ones. The analysis also uncovers paradoxical signals, including boomerang effects, commercial intent, and contradictory empowerment. This study integrates the health belief model and signaling theory to advance understanding of credibility and persuasion in online health communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":36008,"journal":{"name":"Health Marketing Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148302847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}