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A clearer
understanding of the characteristics of multidimensional social differences in individual
level health, while retaining the social context experienced by people, is necessary for
the implementation of such policy. The city profile enabled first, the identification of
health differences between individuals and between social groups in Moscow, secondly, the
recognition of specific structural conditions in the community which affected the health
of people living there, and thirdly, the attribution of differences in health to the
structural conditions in the Moscow community separately from the effects of individual
psychosocial and health behaviors. |