Emotional well-being continues to be a matter of social concern. The latest data provided by the National Institute of Statistics -prepared during the year 2020- corroborate that the number of people in Spain who suffer from depression stands at 2.1 million, which represents 5.25% of the population over 15 years. Another study, this time published in 2021 by Fundamed, the Foundation for Medicines and Health Products Sciences, reveals that "almost three million people have been diagnosed with depression in Spain, which has become one of the most common problems in our country". For some analysts and experts in the field, the effects of the health crisis caused by the coronavirus have had a significant impact on the psychological stability of Spaniards. Not only because of its direct consequences, but also because of those derived from home confinement, which translated into an increase in the percentage of the population that experienced a feeling of being down or depressed.
Well-being is very important to our overall health. And for this reason, the services offered by health insurance are vital to achieve this. BBVA makes personalized health programs such as 'Take care of your mind' available to policyholders, with the aim of providing them with solutions to improve their daily lives. With the purpose of publicizing the increasingly growing importance of physical health and emotional well-being, La Vanguardia in collaboration with BBVA will offer on March 31 at 10 a.m. an interesting discussion between two professionals in the sector, Silvia Álava Sordo, PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology, and Francisco Rey, Director of Business Development at BBVA Seguros, who will address different issues related to our physical and mental well-being. It will reflect on the need to invest in emotional health with health insurance as a tool and lever for investment and prevention for well-being. How can we detect that we have an emotional problem? How can we take care of our body and mind? o What to do if we detect that something is not going well in this regard? These and many other questions will be answered in this event open to everyone, via the Internet. The colloquium can be followed live from the web lavanguardia.com and for free. sign up here
