Sustainable Atlanta is working to ensure the health of all Atlantans through a core focus on clean air, clean water, healthy foods, healthy homes, safe transportation, safe air temperatures and opportunities for physical activity.

These health assets are important since the lack thereof contributes to cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory diseases which are major causes of death and suffering in humans. Moreover, each of these health outcomes vary across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.

It is therefore important to stratify the indicators by race, ethnicity, income, neighborhood, to the extent possible.  The goal is to eliminate health disparities.