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Our conceptual model outlines relationships between fundamental factors such as race-based residential segregation and income inequalities, characteristics of the built environment, and social contexts. It shows how these factor contribute to cardiovascular disease inequalities by influencing biological and behavioral risk factors.

Our conceptual model suggests that eliminating health inequities will require multilevel interventions that attend to structural conditions that disproportionately expose some social groups to risk, while also addressing individual factors that are associated with health.