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Suicide prevention: the evidence on safer clinical care is now good and should be adopted internationally
The global economic downturn seems to be associated with a rise in suicide rates in many countries but we should not assume that this is a social rather than a clinical phenomenon. Mental health patients may be particularly vulnerable to unemployment and other hardships and to cuts in the care they...
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735053/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508110 |
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description | The global economic downturn seems to be associated with a rise in suicide rates in many countries but we should not assume that this is a social rather than a clinical phenomenon. Mental health patients may be particularly vulnerable to unemployment and other hardships and to cuts in the care they receive. There is now no shortage of evidence on how clinical services and health policies can reduce suicide, and in England a new suicide prevention strategy was recently launched for public consultation. What we lack is an effective forum where a rigorous examination of international evidence can take place, with the findings translated into actions. |
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spelling | pubmed-67350532019-09-10 Suicide prevention: the evidence on safer clinical care is now good and should be adopted internationally Appleby, Louis Int Psychiatry Guest Editorial The global economic downturn seems to be associated with a rise in suicide rates in many countries but we should not assume that this is a social rather than a clinical phenomenon. Mental health patients may be particularly vulnerable to unemployment and other hardships and to cuts in the care they receive. There is now no shortage of evidence on how clinical services and health policies can reduce suicide, and in England a new suicide prevention strategy was recently launched for public consultation. What we lack is an effective forum where a rigorous examination of international evidence can take place, with the findings translated into actions. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6735053/ /pubmed/31508110 Text en © 2012 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Guest Editorial Appleby, Louis Suicide prevention: the evidence on safer clinical care is now good and should be adopted internationally |
title | Suicide prevention: the evidence on safer clinical care is now good and should be adopted internationally |
title_full | Suicide prevention: the evidence on safer clinical care is now good and should be adopted internationally |
title_fullStr | Suicide prevention: the evidence on safer clinical care is now good and should be adopted internationally |
title_full_unstemmed | Suicide prevention: the evidence on safer clinical care is now good and should be adopted internationally |
title_short | Suicide prevention: the evidence on safer clinical care is now good and should be adopted internationally |
title_sort | suicide prevention: the evidence on safer clinical care is now good and should be adopted internationally |
topic | Guest Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735053/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508110 |
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