ABSTRACT
Spain is an example of a country that has moved rapidly from having no monitoring of socioeconomic inequalities in health to one which has made limited but remarkable progress in the 1990s to understand socioeconomic inequalities. Regular airing of health inequalities, however, has not been followed by specific national or regional policies or interventions aiming to reduce them. Although a number of social policies are likely to have had an impact on reducing health inequalities, the most crucial policy issue today is to put both research and policy on the government agenda.
