National Suicide
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Surgeon
General Announces National Plan for Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention
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Suicide Prevention
Surgeon General Announces National Plan for
Suicide Prevention
U.S. Surgeon General Satcher unveiled the National Plan for Suicide
Prevention. The Plan acknowledges that males are four times more
likely to die from suicide than are females. The federal government
is finally beginning to recognize the problem of suicide among
men.
Goals
- Promote Awareness that Suicide is a Public Health Problem that
is Preventable
- Develop Broad-based Support for Suicide Prevention
- Develop and Implement Strategies to Reduce the Stigma
Associated with Being a Consumer of Mental Health, Substance
Abuse, and Suicide Prevention Services
- Develop and Implement Suicide Prevention Programs
- Promote Efforts to Reduce Access to Lethal Means and Methods
of Self-Harm
- Implement Training For Recognition of At-Risk Behavior and
Delivery of Effective Treatment
- Develop and Promote Effective Clinical and Professional
Practices
- Improve Access to and Community Linkages with Mental Health
and Substance Abuse Services
- Improve Reporting and Portrayals of Suicidal Behavior, Mental
Illness, and Substance Abuse in the Entertainment and News
Media
- Promote and Support Research on Suicide and Suicide
Prevention
- Improve and Expand Surveillance Systems
If you want to contact the Surgeon General about the Plan, here is
his address: David Satcher, MD, PhD, Surgeon General, 200
Independence Ave., SW. Washington, DC 20201 The full plan can be
found at this address: www.mentalhealth.org/suicideprevention/summarytoc.htm
Suicide Prevention
Each year in the United States, more than 650,000 attempt to commit
suicide. Of these, more than 30,000 die. In an effort to educate the
public about suicide and ways to prevent it, May 6 through 12 has
been designated as National Suicide Prevention Week. This falls
during National Mental Health Month.
Dr. Satcher and colleagues have set forth 11 goals with 68
measurable objectives to help reduce this number and save lives. He
says, if we are successful, not only will it stop senseless deaths,
but also will put on end to the harmful after-effects these acts have
on families and communities. The program is the result of work done
by advocates, clinicians, researchers and survivors. The program
strives to change the most basic attitudes about suicide in an effort
to change, the judicial, educations, social service, and health care
systems.
Some of the objectives set forth include:
- Increasing the number of states that require health insurance
plans to cover mental health and substance abuse care on par with
coverage for physical health care.
- Increasing the availability of comprehensive support programs
for survivors of suicide.
- Increasing the number of professional and volunteer groups as
well as faith-based communities that integrate suicide prevention
into their ongoing activities.
- Increasing the number of television programs and movies that
accurately and safely depict suicide and mental illness.
About half of the states have begun efforts to enact their own
suicide prevention strategies.
Source: www.chennaionline.com/health/homearticles/sucide.asp
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