The capacity of the model to simplify complex issues has helped elucidate the environmental contribution to health inequalities. Indeed, there is real potential to apply the approach to other issues in health and environment, e.g. identify environmentalactionwhichcouldhelpaddress the socialandpublic health challenges of an ageing population. Despite proving useful in a policy context,mDPSEEAwas conceived primarily to address proximal environmental health issues and now seems
limited in the face of the 21st century threats to human health and well-being, and long termsurvival in the face of anthropogenic damage to planetary systems