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Improving community health through marketing exchanges: a participatory action research study on water, sanitation, and hygiene in three Melanesian countries

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dc.creator Barrington, Dani J.
dc.creator Sridharan, S.
dc.creator Saunders, S. G.
dc.creator Souter, Regina T.
dc.creator Bartram, J.
dc.creator Shields, K. F.
dc.creator Meo, S.
dc.creator Kearton, A.
dc.creator Hughes, R. K.
dc.date 2017-03-24T10:50:12Z
dc.date 2017-03-24T10:50:12Z
dc.date 2016-11-02
dc.identifier D.J. Barrington, S. Sridharan, S.G. Saunders, R.T. Souter, J. Bartram, K.F. Shields, S. Meo, A. Kearton, R.K. Hughes, Improving community health through marketing exchanges: a participatory action research study on water, sanitation, and hygiene in three Melanesian countries, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 171, December 2016, pp. 84-93
dc.identifier 0277-9536
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.003
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11649
dc.description Diseases related to poor water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) are major causes of mortality and morbidity. While pursuing marketing approaches to WaSH to improve health outcomes is often narrowly associated with monetary exchange, marketing theory recognises four broad marketing exchange archetypes: market-based, non-market-based, command-based and culturally determined. This diversity reflects the need for parameters broader than monetary exchange when improving WaSH. This study applied a participatory action research process to investigate how impoverished communities in Melanesian urban and peri-urban informal settlements attempt to meet their WaSH needs through marketing exchange. Exchanges of all four archetypes were present, often in combination. Motivations for participating in the marketing exchanges were based on social relationships alongside WaSH needs, health aspirations and financial circumstances. By leveraging these motivations and pre-existing, self-determined marketing exchanges, WaSH practitioners may be able to foster WaSH marketing exchanges consistent with local context and capabilities, in turn improving community physical, mental and social health.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
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dc.subject PAR
dc.subject Sanitation marketing
dc.subject Pacific
dc.subject Fiji
dc.subject Solomon Islands
dc.subject Vanuatu
dc.subject Social capital
dc.subject Well-being
dc.title Improving community health through marketing exchanges: a participatory action research study on water, sanitation, and hygiene in three Melanesian countries
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