It explores the unequal expression of changes and its socioeconomic consequences from the national level to the intra and interterritorial particularities.

Space-territory is the central axis of the study; and its complementary axes, family and health. It contextualizes the historical building processes of inequalities and iniquities in Cuba before 1959 and the homogenization processes carried out by the Revolution. The most outstanding theoretical-methodological contributions are the transdisciplinary approach, anchored in the theory of geographical space, and the definition of new concepts: space-family, type and cotype family.

Its results assess "life" of territories and of their populations and suggest the need to advance in the identification of "opaque" spaces and spaces-families with unfavourable components in its reproduction process, with a view to reinforcing the current actions with tendency to reduce social distances in the country.