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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 94, Issue 1, Pages 37-45Publisher
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.94.1.37
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [K24MH001759, R13MH062073] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIMH NIH HHS [K24MH01759, R13 MH062073, R13MH62073] Funding Source: Medline
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Although not a disease, suicide is a tragic endpoint of complex etiology and a leading cause of death worldwide. Just as preventing heart disease once meant that specialists treated myocardial infarctions in emergency care settings, in the past decade, suicide prevention has been viewed as the responsibility of mental health professionals within clinical settings. By contrast, over the past 50 years, population-based risk reduction approaches have been used with varying levels of effectiveness to prevent morbidity and mortality associated with heart disease. We examined whether the current urgency to develop effective interventions for suicide prevention can benefit from an understanding of the evolution of population-based strategies to prevent heart disease. (Am J Public Health. 2004;94:37-45).
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