@inbook{95f210b654d04fde859a58542d85db46,
title = "Football as broad-spectrum prevention for children and youth: in club and school settings",
abstract = "Physical inactivity is increasingly becoming a major public health concern. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop programmes to promote active and healthy lifestyles among children and adolescents. Football, one of the most popular and practised sports in the world, has recently been tested as a strategy for promoting physical activity and the health status of children and adolescents. The findings have shown that benefits are especially evident for cardiovascular, metabolic, muscular, bone and mental health. In addition, given that football is accessible, economical, easy to play and able to offer its practitioners – regardless of gender, age, and nutritional and economic status – opportunities for fun, recreation and success, it has the potential to be an effective public health strategy for promoting active and healthy lifestyles in children and adolescents.",
author = "Andr{\'e} Seabra and Larsen, {Malte Nejst} and Hansen, {Peter Riis} and Amri Hammami and Jiri Dvorak and Anne-Marie Elbe and Laila Ottesen and Peter Krustrup",
year = "2019",
month = nov,
day = "22",
doi = "10.4324/9780429284892-6",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-367-24888-8",
series = "Critical Research in Football",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "66--78",
editor = "Krustrup, {Peter } and Dan Parnell",
booktitle = "Football as medicine",
address = "United Kingdom",
}