@article{ref1,
title="A brief report on the components of national strategies for suicide prevention suggested by the World Health Organization",
journal="World family medicine journal",
year="2017",
author="Rezaeian, Mohsen",
volume="15",
number="8",
pages="154-154",
abstract=""Preventing suicide: A global imperative" by the World Health Organization (WHO) is a landmark paper which helps member states to design a robust national strategies for suicide prevention. Based on this report a well-designed national strategy for suicide prevention should have at the very least twelve components (1). In order to not forget these twelve vital components I have made an acronym i.e. "MATTE COMPASS". In the "MATTE" part: M refers to "Media i.e. promoting implementation of media guidelines for responsible reporting of suicide", A to "Awareness i.e. establishing public information campaigns to support suicide prevention programs", T to "Training and education i.e. maintaining comprehensive training programs for suicide prevention", T to "Treatment i.e. improving the quality of clinical care for individuals who present to hospital following a suicide attempt" (1). E to "Economics" i.e. governments being financially able, or politically willing, to provide the budget for the above initiatives. In the "COMPASS" part, C refers to "Crisis intervention i.e. having the capacity to respond to crises", O to "Oversight and coordination i.e. establishing institutions to promote and coordinate", M to "Means restriction i.e. reducing the availability of the means to suicide", P to "Postvention i.e. improving caring for those affected by suicide behaviors", A to "Access to services i.e. promoting increased access to comprehensive services for vulnerable to suicidal behaviors", S to "Surveillance i.e. increasing the quality and timeliness of national data on suicide behaviors", S to "Stigma reduction i.e. reducing discrimination against people using mental health services" (1). ... Language: en
",
language="en",
issn="1839-0188",
doi="10.5742/MEWFM.2017.93069",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5742/MEWFM.2017.93069"
}