Facilitating Action for Suicide Prevention by Learning Health Care Systems

Prevention of suicide by youth health care.

The objective of this study was to examine the effect of freely accessible consultation hours in secondary schools by youth health care departments, on population rates for suicide and parasuicide. To this end, an ecologic case-referent study design was used, with data from the Netherlands Bureau of Statistics, the National Hospital Discharge Register, the High-School Students Study, the youth ...

Suicide Prevention: An Emerging Priority For Health Care.

Suicide is a significant public health problem. It is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, and the rate has risen in recent years. Many suicide deaths are among people recently seen or currently under care in clinical settings, but suicide prevention has not been a core priority in health care. In recent years, new treatment and management strategies have been developed, teste...

Integration of suicide prevention program into primary health care network: a field clinical trial in Iran

  Background: Suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME). The suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by Primary Health Care (PHC) network. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into PHC netwo...

Facilitating prevention in primary care.

The Prevention of Suicide in Alaska's Tribal Health Care Setting