Suicide Prevention: A Public Health/Public Policy Approach.

Seiden, Richard H.

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ERIC Number: EJ171283

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1977

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Suicide Prevention: A Public Health/Public Policy Approach

Seiden, Richard H.

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 8, 3, 267-75, 77

This paper explores the use of a public health/public policy model to prevent suicide. Various methods are analyzed using the concepts of availability and lethality to illustrate means by which they might be modified through the public health/public policy approach of community action and legislative change. (Author)

Descriptors: Community Action, Death, Models, Motivation, Psychopathology, Public Health Legislation, Public Policy, Social Problems, Sociocultural Patterns, Suicide

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