[Knowledge and common sense of nurses on the health's inequities: an exploratory study.]

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.

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.

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.

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.