Addressing key risk factors for suicide at a societal level.
Journal: The Lancet. Public health
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Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Electronic address: j.pirkis@unimelb.edu.au.
Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India; Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Orygen, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Centre for Suicide Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Abstract summary
A public health approach to suicide prevention recognises the powerful influence of social determinants. In this paper-the fifth in a Series on a public health approach to suicide prevention-we consider four major risk factors for suicide (alcohol use, gambling, domestic violence and abuse, and suicide bereavement) and examine how their influence on suicide is socially determined. Cultural factors and societal responses have an important role in all four risk factors. In the case of alcohol use and gambling, commercial entities are culpable. This Series paper describes a range of universal, selective, and indicated interventions that might address these risk factors, and focuses particularly on key universal interventions that are likely to yield substantial population-level benefits.
Authors & Co-authors:
Pirkis Jane J
Bantjes Jason J
Dandona Rakhi R
Knipe Duleeka D
Pitman Alexandra A
Robinson Jo J
Silverman Morton M
Hawton Keith K
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