Sports-based and recreational activities as a means to address smoking initiation in disadvantaged adolescents: introducing and testing a new approach to prevention in hard-to-reach groups Ghent University
Disadvantaged groups bear a disproportionate burden of disease (called ‘health inequity’), with one of the crucial mechanisms being a higher exposure to health risk factors, such as smoking. Adolescents from deprived population groups experience a higher exposure to smoke, which not only affects their health at a young age, but also lowers the threshold of becoming smokers themselves, pertaining to health inequity also at a later age. Health ...