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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 factors contribute to cardiovascular disease inequalities by influencing biological and behavioral risk factors.

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

Additional information about the conceptual model can be found in:

Schulz, A.J., Kannan, S., Dvonch, T., Israel, B.A., Allen, A., James, S.A., House, J.S., Lepkowski, J. (2005). Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: The Healthy Environments Partnership conceptual model. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(12): 1817-1825.

Schulz, A.J., Northridge, M. (2004). Social determinants of health and environmental health promotion. Health Education & Behavior, 31(4): 455-471.

Schulz, A.J., Williams, D.R., Israel, B.A., Lempert, L.B. (2002). Racial and spatial relations as social determinants of health in Detroit. Milbank Quarterly, 80(4): 677-707.

Suggested Citation:

Schulz, A.J., Kannan, S., Dvonch, T., Israel, B.A., Allen, A., James, S.A., House, J.S., Lepkowski, J. (2005). Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: The Healthy Environments Partnership conceptual model. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(12): 1817-1825.