The associations between suicides, economic conditions and social isolation: Insights from Spain.

It is noteworthy from Table 3 that coefficients are somewhat statistically significant and in most cases have the expected signs according to the priori economic criteria: (i) self-regional area characteristics and material deprivation factors, when significant (Mediterranean and unemployment, but not North, “foral” or the percentage of population that is at risk of poverty), have a clear positive effect on suicides, (ii) the urban-rural pattern is obtained (through density, being about 2 points higher), (ii) social isolation, has the reverse expected sign (our empirical results indicate that it would reduce the number of suicides by around 7 percent).

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