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Suicide prevention: Putting the person at the center
In this month's Editorial, Vikram Patel and Pattie Pramila Gonsalves explore the interaction of sociodemographic, economic, cultural and health-related factors that contribute to suicide in different populations and settings with mental health, rapid social change and gender discrimination being key.
The inclusion of suicide as a measure in the UN Sustainable Development Goals is a step in the right direction in pressing countries to develop policies around this human and social tragedy.
Image Credit: GoranH, Pixabay
Citation: (2019) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 16(9) October 2019. PLoS Med 16(9): ev16.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v16.i09
Published: October 8, 2019
Copyright: © 2019 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In this month's Editorial, Vikram Patel and Pattie Pramila Gonsalves explore the interaction of sociodemographic, economic, cultural and health-related factors that contribute to suicide in different populations and settings with mental health, rapid social change and gender discrimination being key.
The inclusion of suicide as a measure in the UN Sustainable Development Goals is a step in the right direction in pressing countries to develop policies around this human and social tragedy.
Image Credit: GoranH, Pixabay