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Suicide in America—Moving Up the Public Health Agenda
Author(s) -
McGinnis J. Michael
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1987.tb00059.x
Subject(s) - public health , suicide prevention , intervention (counseling) , epidemiology , occupational safety and health , political science , medicine , environmental health , poison control , public relations , economic growth , psychology , psychiatry , nursing , law , economics
Despite improvements in the health of Americans over the last 30 years, the problem of suicide, and its disturbing rise in the last three decades, remains a major American health riddle. Recognizing suicide as a public health concern is essential to discovering strategies to prevent suicide. Such strategies and prevention efforts must be multifaceted, incorporating a number of public health principles and approaches. These approaches include the refinement of epidemiological methods in the study of suicide; development of health education, information, and intervention programs dealing with suicide; and increased community awareness of and participation in all suicide prevention efforts.