Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking: placing an equity lens on existing systematic reviews
BMC Public HealthPublished 27 May 2008Open access
Caroline Main, Siân Thomas, David Ogilvie, Lisa Stirk, Mark Petticrew, Margaret Whitehead
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Preliminary evidence that increases in the unit price of tobacco may have the potential to reduce smoking related health inequalities is found and there is a need for equity effects to be explicitly evaluated in future systematic reviews and in primary research assessing the effects of population tobacco control interventions.
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There is preliminary evidence that increases in the unit price of tobacco may have the potential to reduce smoking related health inequalities. There is a need for equity effects to be explicitly evaluated in future systematic reviews and in primary research assessing the effects of population tobacco control interventions.
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