Suicide prevention in England

Depression, suicide, and suicide prevention in schizophrenia.

Suicide is the single largest cause of premature death among individuals with schizophrenia. Furthermore, epidemiological data indicate that nearly 80% of patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia will experience a major depressive episode at some time during their lifetime. This report reviews recent findings relative to the risk of suicide in schizophrenia, including data from the Chestnut...

Suicide Prevention

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England

that organization of medical services was, by itself insufficient to meet this problem. The food policy ofthe British government during the Second World War, as well as being economically and politically necessary, was also seen as a health policy based on the principles ofneed, access, and income, not on "hierarchical regionalism". Many of the medical investigations launched by the Medical Res...

Improvements to suicide prevention training for prison staff in England and Wales.

Suicide prevention training for the prison service in England and Wales has been criticized. STORM is a package emphasizing the practice and review of interactions with suicidal persons and was evaluated in a pilot study for use in prisons. Trainees completed questionnaires immediately before and after training and at 6 to 8 months follow-up. Training significantly improved attitudes, knowledge...

prevention of physicians’ suicide

suicide rate in physicians has been reported to be higher than general population or other academics. previous studies found that 85-90% of people who commit suicide had been suffering from some type of psychiatric disorder. suicide prevention is the key element in lowering the numbers of physicians who destroy themselves and end their lives each year. it is needed to provide some educational p...