Edited by:
Anton Isaacs, MBBS, MD, PhD, Monash University, Australia
Injury Epidemiology is calling for submissions to our Collection on Interventions for Suicide Prevention.
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This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being.
Anton Isaacs, MBBS, MD, PhD, Monash University, Australia
Dr. Anton Isaacs is a public health physician with an interest in the mental health of rural and medically underserved communities. His research focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of mental health and wellbeing services. He is also interested in evaluating mental health and suicide prevention services. His current projects focus on ways to improve care for people with severe mental illness, with a particular focus on personal recovery.
Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide with multiple and varied risk factors. Despite much research in the field, effective interventions to prevent suicide remain elusive. The widely utilised WHO framework to classify suicide prevention strategies is the Universal, Selected and Indicated prevention model where strategies are classified as: Universal, when they address the entire population or community; Selected, when strategies focus on at-risk groups and; Indicated, which are directed at specific high-risk individuals who have attempted suicide or who have presented themselves to health services due to suicidal ideation.
This Collection is seeking papers on the following:
We particularly encourage papers that highlight practical aspects of suicide prevention that have been found to be useful and can be applied across diverse settings.
There are currently no articles in this collection.
This Collection welcomes submission of original research articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal.
Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Interventions for Suicide Prevention" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.
Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Editor have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.