title: [Knowledge and common sense of nurses on the health's inequities: an exploratory study.]
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The data for 2015 show of a general deterioration of living conditions and health of the population in Italy. The possible effects call the nurse to become involved in the subject of health inequalities. The study was designed with the goal of assessing how much the nurses know and perceive the correlation between the state of health of the population and system inequities.
  
  
  METHODS
  An exploratory study was conducted through a bibliographic update compared to previous work and questionnaires in convenience samples of professionals and students of nursing and evaluation of results according to the mixed method perspective.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The nursing literature on the quantity is very limited plan. The questionnaire provides useful answers to the evaluation of the perception of inequalities in health in terms of horizontal and vertical equity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Knowledge of health inequalities cannot be on the edge scientific work and the same professional literature. E 'need to reduce the gap between the aspects of values of their profession, which reverberate in the perception of existing inequities, and the full assumption of knowledge related to the socio-economic determinants of health and disease.
authors.affiliation: Nurse, PhD in Epidemiology and Sociology of Health Inequalities. ASUR - Marche, Area Vasta n. 2, Ancona; Correspondence: giordanojesi@tiscali.it.
authors.forename: Giordano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cotichelli
authors.affiliation: Nurse, University Hospital of North Durham, Durham, UK.
authors.forename: Giorgia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Di Meo
authors.affiliation: Nurse, Foundation Pope Giovanni Paolo II, Cupramontana (italy).
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Giampieri
mesh_terms: D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D009726:Nurses; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires