New project related to the secondary prevention of cardiovascular risk factors

Following the call for project 2010 of IReSP, we initiate a new project that aims to provide information to interventions seeking to reduce the prevalence of metabolic risk factors through the early detection of these risk factors and their medical control.

The objectives of the project are the following:

(i) examine whether there are disparities in the spatial accessibility to healthcare services in the study territory;

(ii) study social and spatial disparities in the biological screening of metabolic risk factors, medical follow-up, and access to recommended antihypertensive and lipopenic treatments;

(iii) explore the mechanisms contributing to these disparities by taking into account, in a multilevel perspective, factors related to the residential environment of participants, to the physicians and to their geographic context of practice, and to the individual level.

We gratefully thank INPES and IReSP, as well as CNAM-TS, for their support in this project.