The Girona Health Region is the one with the best health perception in all of Catalonia, according to the latest population survey by the Department of Health of 2025. In the demarcation, 83.7% of the population rates their health as good, very good, or excellent, above the 80.9% registered in Catalonia as a whole.
The study also places Girona as the health region with the least population that considers its own health negative. Only 2.5% define it as bad, the lowest figure in Catalonia, compared to the 4.3% average.
Fewer chronic problems and fewer limitations
The survey also reflects a somewhat more favorable situation than the Catalan average in other indicators. 35.2% of Girona's population states having some chronic health problem, while in Catalonia that percentage rises to 37.4%.
The 64.8% of residents in Girona assures not having any perceived chronic problem, a fact that reinforces that better general assessment of the state of health in the region.
Also in the limitations for daily life, Girona presents lower figures. 85.8% of the population says not to be limited for health reasons, above the 81.6% Catalan. At the opposite extreme, 3.2% states to be severely limited, compared to 3.8% of the country as a whole.
In the European GALI indicator, used to measure limitations derived from health problems, 13.8% of Girona's population responds that they suffer from them. In Catalonia, that percentage rises to 17.2%.
Differences between men and women
The survey detects a clear difference by sex in the perception of health problems and limitations. In Girona, women report more chronic problems than men, with 40.9% compared to 29.7%.
Distance also appears in limitations. 17.4% of women claim to have them, compared to 10.3% of men. Among people who suffer from some limitation in the Girona health region, in 97.9% of cases this situation has been ongoing for six months or more.
Call for more concrete measures
The publication of these data coincides with World Health Day, which is commemorated this Tuesday. In this context, experts insist on the need to promote more specific policies to improve health habits in all groups, also in a territory that starts from better indicators than the Catalan average.
The portrait left by the survey is that of a region with a more favorable health perception, fewer declared chronic problems and fewer limitations in daily life, although with internal inequalities that remain visible, especially between men and women.