Suicide prevention strategies - An international perspective

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-14

  Singh, Bruce ^b   Jenkins, Rachel ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Psychiatry ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 0034106163     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540260074058     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (1997). Mental health and wellbeing profile of adults. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
2. Bloom, B.L. (1986). Primary prevention: an overview. In: J.T. Barter & S.W. Talbott (Eds), Primary prevention in psychiatry: state of the art (pp. 3-12). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
3. Cantor, C.H. & Baume, P.J.M. (1998) Access to methods of suicide - what impact? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 32, 8-14.
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1992). Youth Suicide Prevention Program: a resource guide centre for disease control. Atlanta, GA: CDC.
5. Conwell, Y. & Caine, E.D. (1991). Rational suicide and the right to die: reality and myth. New England of Journal Medicine, 325, 1100-1103.
6. Department of Health (1994). Health of the Nation: the mental illness key area handbook, 2nd edition. London: HMSO.
7. Desjarlais, R., Eisenberg, L., Good, B. & Kleinman, A. (1995). World mental health. Problems and priorities in low-income countries. New York: Oxford University Press.
8. Diekstra, R.F.W. (1982). Epidemiology of attempted suicide in the EEC. In: J. Mendlewicz (Eds), New trends in suicide prevention (pp. 1-16). New York: Karger (Bibliotheca Psychatrica).
9. Diekstra, R.F.W. & Garnefski, N. (1995) On the nature, magnitude and causality of suicidal behaviour. Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviour, 25, 36-57.
10. Durkheim, E. (1952). Suicide. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
11. Felner, R.D., Jason, L.A., Moritsugu, J.N. & Faber, S.S. (Eds) (1983). Preventive psychology: theory, research and practice. New York: Pergamon Press.
12. Gordon, R.S. (1983). An operational classification of disease prevention. Public Health Reports, 98, 107-109.
13. Haddon, W. Jr. (1967). The prevention of accidents. In: D.M. Clark & B. MacMahon (Eds), Preventive medicine. Boston: Little, Brown.
14. Hassan (1998). One hundred years of Emile Durkheim's suicide: a study in sociology. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 32, 168-171.
15. Irwin, C.E. & Vaughan, E. (1988). Psychosocial context of adolescent development: study group report. Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 9(6), 11-19.
16. Jacobs, D.G. (1995). National Depression Screening Day: educating the public, researching those in need of treatment and broadening professional understanding. Harvard Review, Psychiatry, 3, 156-159.
17. Meltzer, H., Gill, B. & Petticrew, M. (1994). OPCS surveys of psychiatric morbidity in Great Britain, Bulletin No 1. London: Office for National Statistics.
18. Murray, L. & Lopez, A. (1996). The global burden of disease. Oxford: World Bank and Oxford University Press.
19. Platt, S., Bille-Brahe, U. & Kerkhof, A.J.F.M. (1992). Parasuicide in Europe: the WHO/EURO multicentre study on parasuicide. I: Introduction and preliminary analysis for 1989. Ada Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 85, 97-104.
20. Regier, D.A. & Kaelber, C.T. (1995). The Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Program: studying the prevalence and incidence of psychopathology. In: M.T. Tsuang, M. Tohen & G.E.P. Zahner (Eds), Textbook in psychiatric epidemiology. Chichester: Wiley.
21. Robertson, L.S. (1983). Injuries: causes, control strategies, and public policy. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
22. Shneidman, E. (1985). Definition of suicide. Chichester: Wiley.
23. Silverman, M.M. & Maris, M.R. (1995). The prevention of suicidal behaviours: an overview. Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviour, American Association of Suicidology, 25(1), 10-21.
24. Taylor, S.J., Kingdom, D. & Jenkins, R. (1997). How are nations trying to prevent suicide? An analysis of national suicide prevention strategies. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 95, 457-463.
25. United Nations (1996). Prevention of suicide - guidelines for the formulation and implementation of national strategies. New York: UN.
26. Ustun, T.B. & Sartorius, N. (1995). Mental illness in general health care, Chichester. Wiley.
27. World Health Organization (1990). Consultation on strategies for reducing suicidal behaviour in the European Region, Summary Report. Geneva: WHO.