In recent years, the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Mental Health Action Plan, 2013–2020, has been a major step forward in pushing the agenda of suicide prevention globally (WHO, 2013; Saxena, Funk, & Chisholm, 2013). This plan was adopted by health ministers in all 194 WHO member states to formally recognize the importance of mental health, which was a remarkable achievement. Among WHO...

Understanding the context of suicidal behaviors is critical for effective suicide prevention strategies. Although suicide is an important topic for Asian Americans, there is limited information about what Asian Americans' attitudes are towards suicide and their perceptions about the effectiveness of prevention efforts. These questions are critical to examine to provide foundational knowledge fo...

BACKGROUND Substance use is a well-established, and potentially modifiable, risk factor for suicide. Suicide prevention interventions are typically framed within the biomedical paradigm and focus on addressing individual risk factors, improving access to psychiatric care, and improving the skills of medical personnel to recognise at-risk individuals. Few studies have focused on contextual facto...

OBJECTIVES This article describes how seven states participating in a new public health surveillance system for violent death in the US, the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), have used data to support local suicide prevention activities. SETTING The NVDRS is unique in that it augments death certificate data with event and circumstance information from death investigation report...

Objectives: This article describes how seven states participating in a new public health surveillance system for violent death in the US, the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), have used data to support local suicide prevention activities. Setting: The NVDRS is unique in that it augments death certificate data with event and circumstance information from death investigation report...