The ‘rainbow’ model of health inequities is a socioecological model in which determinants of health and potential policy interventions are organized on five hierarchical levels. These are, in descending order()with the latter being individual-level stable characteristics. On these levels, socalled “positive health factors”, “protective factors”, and “risk factors” are assumed to influence health—for example, on level (ii), hazardous working conditions would constitute a health risk factor. The unequal distribution of these factors is considered a determinant of health inequities—a violation of the ideal that everyone should be able to achieve their full health potential regardless of their social position or other socially determined factors.