Using social marketing mix to measure advertising messages in the direction of improving community health

Social marketing is a common strategy in global health and its goal is to ensure the improvement of knowledge and reform attitudes in society to establish behavior change to improve public health. The purpose of this study is to use social marketing mix to measure advertising messages in the direction of improving community health. This research is applied in terms of model presentation and descriptive-survey in terms of purpose. The data collection method in this study is a combination of quantitative methods. The statistical population of the research for the model test consists of young people under 25 years old in Mazandaran province who smoke. Using the Cochran's formula, the number of samples was equal to 385 people who were examined. Quantitative data were collected using three questionnaires. Quantitative modeling of structural equations using PLS software was used to analyze the data. The results of the first hypothesis showed that the characteristics of the advertising message affect the respondents' perception of the social marketing mix. Also, the results of the second hypothesis show a positive and significant effect of the characteristics of the advertising message on the normative system of consumers. Finally, the results of the third hypothesis showed that the consumer normative system affects the respondents' perception of the social marketing mix.