The authors would like to thank the referees for their very helpful comments and Karen Bennett for the language review. This research was partially supported by two projects: GeoHealthS - Health Status Geography: An application of the Population Health Index in the last 20 years (PTDC/CSGEO/122566/2010) and SMAILE - Study on Mental Health. Assessment of the Impact of Local and Economic conditioners (PTDC/ATP-GE...