Public Health Papers - Prevention f Suicide

Book : Public Health Papers - Prevention f Suicide

Language : English

Library : Social Phsician

Publish Place : Geneva

Volume : 35

Publish Date : 00 1968

Publisher : World Health Organization WHO

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 3308

INDEX


CONTENTS
Preface . . Introduction
Preventive measures.............
Prevention of fatal outcome of suicidal acts.....
Prevention of repetition of suicidal acts.......
Prevention of first suicidal attempt........
Prevention of desire to attempt suicide.......
Identification and care of high-risk groups.....
Organization of suicide-prevention services
Existing services...............
Steps in development of services.........
Education and training programmes.......
Content and presentation............
Programmes for the general public........
Programmes for medical personnel........
Programmes for mental health personnel......
Programmes for nurses and social workers.....
Programmes for other professional groups......
Programmes for personnel in specialized suicide-prevenĀ­tion services ................
Statistics and research.......
Statistics currently available.....
Methods used to collect data on suicide
Statistical tabulations.......
Reliability of available suicide statistics . Improving value of statistics Epidemiological and ecological research Clinical research.........
Annex 1. Annotations to text.........
Annex 2. Tables on factors related to suicide and attempted suicide..........
Annex 3. Data on death rates from suicide in selecĀ­ted countries by selected variables . . .
References.................