{"title":"Towards a National Policy on Suicide Prevention","authors":"M. Das","doi":"10.51332/bjp.2019.v24.i1.75","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Suicide is a global phenomenon and occurs throughout the life span. It is recognised as a critical public health issue by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020.1 In the year 2016, it was estimated that globally 817000 population committed suicide. This means world wide one person commits suicide in every 40 seconds.","PeriodicalId":377938,"journal":{"name":"Bengal Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bengal Journal of Psychiatry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.51332/bjp.2019.v24.i1.75","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Suicide is a global phenomenon and occurs throughout the life span. It is recognised as a critical public health issue by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020.1 In the year 2016, it was estimated that globally 817000 population committed suicide. This means world wide one person commits suicide in every 40 seconds.