title: Mapping the awareness of inequalities in health programs in Spanish communities: moving forward together.
abstract: The aim of this study is to map the awareness of gender, socioeconomic, immigrant and ethnic health inequalities in health at schools, maternal health and traffic injury health prevention programs. The study was conducted in the 19 health descentralized areas in Spain, 17 autonomous community (ACs) and the 2 autonomous cities (ACities). The data were collected from May 2008 to January 2009. The unit of analysis was the collection of policy documents setting out the programs mentioned above and the related support material in each AC. A reading guide was used to analyze the awareness of inequalities. With regard to health at schools, 2 of 10 programs show a high awareness of inequalities and include many specific proposals to be implemented at the local level. Regarding maternal health, 13 ACs have prepared support material with high awareness of inequalities to be implemented. A traffic injury program has been created in two ACs. We map the whole situation in Spain regarding the health programs that we have used as examples and their awareness of inequalities. We can conclude that there are differences between the regions studied in Spain and in general, the awareness of inequalities is low.
authors.affiliation: Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública, Valencia, Spain. peiro_ros@gva.es
authors.forename: Rosana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peiró-Pérez
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alvarez-Dardet
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mas
authors.forename: Dory
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aviño
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Talavera
authors.forename: Xavi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Torremocha
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paredes
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fernandez
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006291:Health Policy; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008429:Maternal Welfare; D009313:National Health Programs; D012572:School Health Services; D013030:Spain; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control