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.