Best strategies for reducing the suicide rate in Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 115-118

  Krysinska, Karolina ^a   Batterham, Philip J ^b   Tye, Michelle ^a   Shand, Fiona ^a   Calear, Alison L ^b   Cockayne, Nicole ^a   Christensen, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Population preventable fraction; risk ratio; suicide; suicide prevention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEATH; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK REDUCTION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84957103102     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004867415620024     Document Type: Article

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