AI opens new frontier for suicide prevention

Nunavut's new suicide prevention strategy.

Just days after the resignation of Nunavut’s first cabinet minister responsible for suicide prevention, the territory released a new one-year strategy aimed at reducing suicide rates and the risk factors that drive them. On Mar. 3, Health Minister Paul Okalik, who was also responsible for suicide prevention, resigned because he opposed the government’s plan to open a beer and wine store in Iqal...

JIVR: a new frontier for global injury and violence prevention

elcome to the JIVR! On behalf of Editorial Team/Board, we are delighted to inform you that after three years of preparation and hard work the journal entitled "Journal of Injury and Violence Research" (JIVR) is established. The driving force behind the inception and evolution of JIVR has been to provide an interdisciplinary forum for publishing definitive peer reviewed articles devoted to the c...

The first direct detection of gravitational waves opens a vast new frontier in astronomy

THE first direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs), announced on 11 February 2016, has opened a vast new frontier in astronomy. Albert Einstein predicted the existence of these waves about a century ago as a consequence of his general theory of relativity. Radio astronomy observations of the binary pulsar system PSR 1913 + 16 over a 20 year period beginning in 1975 provided strong observat...

suicide prevention: a resource for the family

the family can play an important role in the prevention of suicide if it is capable of aiding the mental health care services in the early detection and management of family members at risk. in order to attain that goal the whole family should be qualified and rid of some myths associated with suicidal behavior. some scientific criteria which should be taken into consideration by the family in ...

Suicide Prevention