561 Keep him here: a provincial suicide prevention awareness campaign

The physician's role in suicide prevention: lessons learned from a public awareness campaign.

The suicide rate in Minnesota has increased every year since 2000, making suicide a serious public health problem. In the spring and summer of 2009, the nonprofit organization Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) launched a public awareness campaign targeting four populations at high risk of suicidal behavior and suicide: adult men, seniors, teens, and American Indians. The goals of the...

Awareness effects of a youth suicide prevention media campaign in Louisiana.

Research on the efficacy of mediated suicide awareness campaigns is limited. The impacts of a state-wide media campaign on call volumes to a national hotline were analyzed to determine if the advertisements have raised awareness of the hotline. We use a quasi-experimental design to compare call volumes from ZIP codes where and when the campaign is active with those where and when the campaign i...

‘We do it to keep him alive’: bereaved individuals’ experiences of online suicide memorials and continuing bonds

This paper presents draws on interviews with individuals who have experience of creating, maintaining and utilising Facebook sites in memory of a loved one who has died by suicide. We argue that Facebook enables the deceased to be an on-going active presence in the lives of the bereaved. We highlight the potential of the Internet (and Facebook in particular) as a new and emerging avenue for the...

The fibrocyte in pulmonary hypertension: we seek him here, we seek him there.

T he fibrocyte is one of many populations of bone marrowderived cells that can be detected in the peripheral blood and is considered to represent a mesenchymal progenitor cell [1]. The fibrocyte, as we currently understand this term, was originally described by BUCALA et al. [2] in 1994 and is defined by the expression of a variety of cell surface antigens, including the stem cell marker CD34, ...

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