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Live Life - suicide prevention implementation guide

06 Sep 2022
Adolescent Health

by WHO

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), India recorded over 1.53 lakh suicides, an estimated 418 daily suicides in 2020. This amounts to a suicide mortality rate (per lakh population) of 11.3 in 2020, as compared to 10.4 in 2019. This is the highest number of suicides in the country in a decade and is the highest in the world. India’s contribution to global suicide deaths has increased from 27.3% in 1990 to 36.5% in 2019 among women and girls and from 16.7% in 1990 to 20.9% in 2019 among men and boys. The suicide mortality rate among Indian women and girls continues to be 2.1 times the global rate (5.7; 5.1–6.4), despite a 40.7% reduction in the rate from 1990 to 2019 (51.3% reduction globally). Suicide accounts for most deaths in the 15–39 years age group in India compared with other causes of death with 52.6% of all deaths from suicide among women and girls and 47.4% among men and boys being in this age group in 2019. NCRB reports indicate personal and social factors, such as socioeconomic circumstances, interpersonal problems, social and cultural conflicts, alcoholism, unemployment, and poor health, as the major reasons for suicide deaths.

WHO has underlined suicide as a serious public health concern in India and has called for a comprehensive suicide prevention strategy tailored to India’s sociocultural, economic, and health context. And owing to increasing media reports of suicide, many have called for the need to develop national suicide prevention strategy for India. Despite the absence of a national suicide prevention strategy, the Government has taken some actions across the health and social domains that facilitate suicide prevention.

 WHO advocates for countries to take action to prevent suicide, ideally through a comprehensive national suicide prevention strategy. Governments and communities can contribute to suicide prevention by implementing LIVE LIFE – WHO’s approach to starting suicide prevention so that countries can build on it further to develop a comprehensive national suicide prevention strategy. The guide is for all countries, with or without a national suicide prevention strategy; national or local focal points for suicide prevention, mental health, alcohol or NCDs; and community stakeholders with a vested interest or who may already be engaged in implementing suicide prevention activities.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(22)00011-6/fulltext

https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/health/mental-health-in-india-need-for-a-national-suicide-prevention-strategy-that-targets-the-youth-7847342/

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2215-0366%2821%2900152-8

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