Consequently, like other models of its type, this model links biophysical concerns with social and psychological outcomes and provides a basis for exploring the associations between the two. Another advantage of this model is that by identifying the physical, social and economic environment as an important influence on this causal sequence, it provides a theoretical bridge between biomedical and socioenvironmental concepts of health and modes of thinking. As such, it offers what Engel has called a biopsychosocial perspective.