TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - A brief report on the components of national strategies for suicide prevention suggested by the World Health Organization
JO  - World family medicine journal
A1  - Rezaeian, Mohsen
SP  - 154
EP  - 154
VL  - 15
IS  - 8
N2  - "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). ...<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1839-0188
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5742/MEWFM.2017.93069
ID  - ref1
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