Book contents
- Preventing Suicide
- Preventing Suicide
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Suicide as a Public Health Problem
- Chapter 1 Suicide Is a Global Problem
- Chapter 2 Mental Health Gap and Suicide
- Chapter 3 Preventing Male Suicide
- Chapter 4 National Suicide Prevention Policies
- Section 2 Specific Challenges in Preventing Suicide
- Section 3 Practicalities
- Index
- References
Chapter 1 - Suicide Is a Global Problem
from Section 1 - Suicide as a Public Health Problem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2025
Book contents
- Preventing Suicide
- Preventing Suicide
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Suicide as a Public Health Problem
- Chapter 1 Suicide Is a Global Problem
- Chapter 2 Mental Health Gap and Suicide
- Chapter 3 Preventing Male Suicide
- Chapter 4 National Suicide Prevention Policies
- Section 2 Specific Challenges in Preventing Suicide
- Section 3 Practicalities
- Index
- References
Summary
Suicide is a global phenomenon, with implications for HICs and LMICs alike, bec,ause of interconnectedness. Social injustice increases societies’ suicide risk and it is easily and frequently exported. Suicide is preventable but not always individually. Suicide prediction is difficult or impossible, so those measures that effect everyone work best. Hence assuring good quality, timely mental health coverage for the whole population is important. Those with the least resources must be targeted, as they are at greatest risk..
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- Preventing SuicideAn Evidence-Based Approach, pp. 3 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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