Citation

Lopez Gonzalez ML, Najera Marrondo P, Lopez Mondedeu C, Secall Mellen L, del Valle MO, Donate Suarez I, Cueto Espinar A. Gac. Sanit. 1992; 6(32): 220-224.

Vernacular Title

Publicidad, legislacion publicitaria y salud.

Affiliation

Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1295843

Abstract

The media and specifically magazines and sunday supplements contain advertisements, some of which can be dangerous to one's health. We have investigated these types of advertisements, which were included in the 15 top sales magazines in Spain. The period of analysis corresponded to the period april-may, 1991. We have compared the results obtained with the results of a previous investigation carried our in 1987, using an identical method. We have tried to test if the so-called Law of Publicity of 1988 has had any effect on publicity. We have found, 1383 advertisements that could have a damaging effect on one's health. Although the total number of advertisements have decreased over this four year period, the law has hardly produced any influence on publicity, and we have found breaking of the law in the investigated material.

Language: es