1.) construct a baseline health profile at the city level which addressed inequity in health, permitted longitudinal follow-up of risk factors, and investigation of the extent of sociourban area variation in morbidity patterns;
2.) explain in a multilevel model the extent to which individual and social risk factors interact in the health variability of Moscow;
3.) inform public policy decision-making in a nascent self-financing Russian private health insurance industry utilizing sociomedical indicators;
4.) provide a comparative assessment of Moscow with other community surveys of Eastern and Western European cities;
5.) bring empirical data to bear upon the debate surrounding the East-West health status gap.