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Title: Preventing suicide : a global imperative / conceptualization and guidance, Shekhar Saxena (WHO), Etienne Krug (WHO), Oleg Chestnov (WHO) ; project coordinator and editing, Alexandra Fleischmann (WHO), Sutapa Howlander (Australia), Lakshmi Vijayakumar (India), Alex Butchart (WHO).
Main Entry: World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, issuing body.
Saxena, Shekhar, editor.
Krug, Etienne G., editor.
Chestnov, Oleg, editor.
Publisher: World Health Organization,
Publication Date: [2014]
Publication Place: Geneva :
ISBN: 9789241564779
9241564776
Subject: Suicide -- Prevention.
Suicide, Attempted.
Suicide -- prevention & control.
Suicidal Ideation.
National Health Programs.
Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowlegements -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Global epidemiology of suicide and suicide attempts -- Suicide mortality -- Suicide attempts -- Risk and protective factors, and related interventions -- Health system and societal risk factors -- Community and relationship risk factors -- Individual risk factors -- What protects people from the risks of suicide? -- The current situation in suicide prevention -- What is known and what has been achieved -- What are countries doing about suicide prevention now? -- Current legal status of suicide around the world and perspectives for change -- Working towards a comprehensive national response for suicide prevention -- How can countries create a comprehensive national strategy and why is it useful? -- How can progress be tracked when evaluating a national suicide prevention strategy? -- The cost and cost-effectiveness of suicide prevention efforts -- The way forward for suicide prevention -- What can be done and who needs to be involved? -- Forging a way forward -- What does success look like? -- Key messages -- References -- Estimated numbers and rates of suicide by sex and age, 2000 and 2012 -- WHO Member States grouped by WHO Region and average income per capita.

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