With more than 200 000 deaths by suicide annually, India's contribution to the global deaths by suicide is disproportionately high and increasing. In The Lancet Psychiatry, Senthil Amudhan and colleagues 3 report that within the previous month, more than 30 million Indians aged 18 years or older had thought about taking their own lives, 5·2 million had made a suicide plan, and 2·6 million had attempted suicide. As well as addressing an important gap in the understanding of the magnitude and determinants of suicidality in India, this Article has important implications for suicide prevention because India does not have a national suicide prevention strategy and is projected to miss the Sustainable Development Goal 2030 target of suicide reduction unless major action is taken to reduce the suicide death rate ...
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LA - en SN - 2215-0374 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30471-7 ID - ref1 ER -