Pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising and US Hispanic patient-consumers
Autor: | Kristin Kay Barker, Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Direct-to-consumer advertising
Prescription Drugs Health (social science) Drug Industry media_common.quotation_subject Population Ethnic group Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Social group Promotion (rank) Humans Medicine Social determinants of health Marketing Medical prescription education Pharmaceutical industry media_common education.field_of_study Cultural Characteristics business.industry Health Policy Community Participation Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Advertising Hispanic or Latino United States Sociology Medical business |
Zdroj: | Sociology of Health & Illness. 37:1337-1351 |
ISSN: | 0141-9889 |
Popis: | Hispanic Americans use prescription medications at markedly lower rates than do non-Hispanic whites. At the same time, Hispanics are the largest racial-ethnic minority in the USA. In a recent effort to reach this underdeveloped market, the pharmaceutical industry has begun to create Spanish-language direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) campaigns. The substantive content of these campaigns is being tailored to appeal to the purported cultural values, beliefs and identities of Latino consumers. We compare English-language and Spanish-language television commercials for two prescription medications. We highlight the importance of selling medicine to a medically under-served population as a key marketing element of Latino-targeted DTCA. We define selling medicine as the pharmaceutical industry's explicit promotion of medicine's cultural authority as a means of expanding its markets and profits. We reflect on the prospects of this development in terms of promoting medicalisation in a US subgroup that has heretofore eluded the pharmaceutical industry's marketing influence. Our analysis draws on Nikolas Rose's insights concerning variations in the degree to which certain groups of people are more medically made up than others, by reflecting on the racial and ethnic character of medicalisation in the USA and the role DTCA plays in shaping medicalisation trends. A video abstract of this article can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZabCle9-jHw&feature=youtu.be. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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