“…The fair number of scientific articles on suicide in Sri Lanka that have been published in the last 20 years is probably due to this unparalleled drop in national suicide rates (4). The initiatives undertaken at the time were driven by the President establishing a group to address suicides, which were then reported to be the highest in the world.…”
Some background issuesFirst to consider is the ethics of suicide prevention. When invited some quarter century ago to contribute to formulating and implementing a national response to reduce Sri Lanka's then record-high suicide rate, I was
“…The fair number of scientific articles on suicide in Sri Lanka that have been published in the last 20 years is probably due to this unparalleled drop in national suicide rates (4). The initiatives undertaken at the time were driven by the President establishing a group to address suicides, which were then reported to be the highest in the world.…”
Some background issuesFirst to consider is the ethics of suicide prevention. When invited some quarter century ago to contribute to formulating and implementing a national response to reduce Sri Lanka's then record-high suicide rate, I was
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