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AUTHOR
Elita Poplavska
Additional file 1: of Disease awareness campaigns in printed and online media in Latvia: cross-sectional study on consistency with WHO ethical criteria for medicinal drug promotion and European standards
Table S1. Data collection. List of publications included. (DOCX 16 kb)
Disease awareness campaigns in printed and online media in Latvia: cross-sectional study on consistency with WHO ethical criteria for medicinal drug promotion and European standards
Background European legislation prohibits direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines, but allows drug manufacturers to provide information to the public on health and diseases. Our aim was to measure the frequency of disease awareness campaigns in Latvian media and assess their compliance with international and European standards. Methods Materials on health/disease and treatments were collected between April and September 2015 from 12 newspapers and magazines and six online portals. Disease awareness campaigns were assessed using a previously developed instrument based on the WHO Ethical Criteria for Medicinal Drug promotion and European standards (EU law and pharmaceutical i…
Additional file 2: of Disease awareness campaigns in printed and online media in Latvia: cross-sectional study on consistency with WHO ethical criteria for medicinal drug promotion and European standards
Table S2. Overlap between WHO Ethical Criteria, Dutch Self-regulatory guidelines and the instrument. Table S2. Provides an overlap between relevant provisions within the WHO Ethical Criteria for Medicinal Drug Promotion and the Dutch Self-Regulatory (CGR) Guidelines for provision of information on prescription medicines and the relevant sections of the instrument. (DOCX 116 kb)