Many factors influence physical and metal health, including living conditions. According to data from the Public Health of Navarra, the suicide rate of people with low incomes is twice that of people with medium or high incomes. Because poverty, economic difficulties, social exclusion, etc., make them even more vulnerable.

 

Adriana Goñi, more clinical psychologist from the Navarra Health Network, highlights that diseases such as anxiety and depression can have a "high degree of relationship" with poor economic conditions of life and are risk factors for suicide. It therefore stresses the need for preventive measures: “With subsidies, with social protection, promoting leisure and door-to-door care, we must pay attention to socio-economic conditions.”

 

 

Another factor to consider is age and sex. According to data collected between 2018 and 2022, an average of 49 people committed suicide a year, which accounts for 0.8% of all deaths. In the case of children under 40 years of age, the data is higher: One in ten deaths was from suicide.

 

The Health Service has also done so further back and analyzed data from the last 25 years. He stresses that since 2000 the suicide rate has dropped “positively”. He warns, however, that the appearance of COVID-19 has increased again.