Preventing suicide, promoting resilience: Is this achievable from a global perspective?

Gabriel IvbijaroLucja KolkiewiczDavid GoldbergMichelle B RibaIsatou N S N'jieJeffrey GellerRoy KallivayalilAfzal JavedIgor ŠvabPaul SummergradSumaya LaherYaccub Enum

Published in: Asia-Pacific psychiatry : official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists (2019)

Suicide continues to be a major health concern globally despite many initiatives to identify risk factors and methods for suicide prevention. We have carried out a detailed narrative review of the literature from 2016 to 2019 using the headings of Personal resilience (P1), People (P2), Places (P3), Prevention (P4), Promoting collaboration (P5), and Promoting research (P6) in order to support an integrated approach to suicide prevention and the promotion of personal and population resilience. We have made 10 key recommendations on how this can be moved forward.

Keyphrases

risk factors
climate change
social support
healthcare
public health
quality improvement
clinical practice
human health