The effect of national suicide prevention programs on suicide rates in 21 OECD nations

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 73; no. 9; pp. 1395 - 1400
• Main Authors: Matsubayashi, Tetsuya, Ueda, Michiko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2011; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Collectives; Data analysis; Data Collection; Developed Countries; Effectiveness; Elderly; Female; Health Problems; Humans; Implementation; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Models, Statistical; National suicide prevention strategy; OECD; OECD nations; Panel data; Panel data analysis; Prevention; Prevention and actions; Prevention programs; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public Health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Sex; Suicide; Suicide - prevention & control; Suicide - trends; Suicides & suicide attempts; Workers; Young Adult; Youth; National suicide prevention strategy; OECD nations; Suicide; Panel data analysis; Human; Sanitary program; Data analysis; Rate; Prevention; OECD; Strategy; Social medicine; Public health

Suicide has become a serious and growing public health problem in many countries. To address the problem of suicide, some countries have developed comprehensive suicide prevention programs as a collective political effort. However, no prior research has offered a systematic test of their effectivene...