Implications of Cochrane Review on restricting or banning alcohol advertising in South Africa

Charles Parry; David Pienaar; John Ataguba; Jimmy Volmink; Tamara Kredo; Mlenga Jere; Nandi Siegfried

doi:10.7196/SAMJ.9260

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Implications of Cochrane Review on restricting or banning alcohol advertising in South Africa

Charles Parry, David Pienaar, John Ataguba, Jimmy Volmink, Tamara Kredo, Mlenga Jere, Nandi Siegfried

Authors' affiliations

Charles Parry, Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

David Pienaar, Department of Health, Western Cape Government, Cape Town, South Africa

John Ataguba, Health Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Jimmy Volmink, Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa; South African Cochrane Centre, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Tamara Kredo, South African Cochrane Centre, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Mlenga Jere, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Nandi Siegfried, Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, USA