Tasks:
- Define demarketing and discuss its implications in healthcare.
- Discuss the three primary concepts of demarketing.
- Mention when healthcare organizations face opportunities to utilize demarketing strategies.
- Mention some demarketing tactics are commonly used by healthcare organizations. How do these organizations reduce the total demand and the selective demand?
- Discuss the specific dangers associated with the demarketing approach in the healthcare market.
- Select one of the following topics and elaborate on potential demarketing opportunities relevant to current market trends. Be sure to address the current demand for demarketing your selection and its relevance to the healthcare community.
- Government demarketing on the United States welfare state (i.e., Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, Social Security, etc.)
- Health risk demarketing on consumer smoking
- Place demarketing on institutional long-term care facilities