發佈日期︰2022-03-15 │ 發佈人︰後台管理員

The national suicide prevention strategy in India: context and considerations for urgent action

    India has the highest number of suicide deaths in the world, with suicide being the leading cause of death in the 15–39 years age group. India's contribution to global suicide deaths has increased from 27.3% in 1990 to 36.5% in 2019 among women and girls; and from 16.7% in 1990 to 20.9% in 2019 among men and boys. On the basis of current trends, India is projected to fall short of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2030 target of reducing the age-standardized suicide death rate (ASDR; 12.1 per 100 000 population in 2019) by a third. WHO has highlighted suicide as a serious public health concern in India and has called for a comprehensive suicide prevention strategy tailored to India's sociocultural, economic, and health context. At a time when the Government of India is developing a national suicide prevention strategy, the purpose of this Health Policy paper is to identify key challenges, opportunities, and priorities for the national strategy contextualized in the epidemiology, and risk and protective factors, to systematically close the gap towards the SDG target for suicide deaths in India.

Authors:
Lakshmi Vijayakumar, PhD;Prof. Prabha S Chandra, MD
Munirathinam Suresh Kumar, MD;Soumitra Pathare, PhD
Debanjan Banerjee, MD;Tanmoy Goswami, MA
Rakhi Dandona, PhD
Published: December 08, 2021
For the full article, see: The Lancet Psychiatry