Suicide, suicide attempts and pesticides: a major hidden public health problem

Suicide, suicide attempts and pesticides: a major hidden public health problem.

In addition to its specific focus on selfdirected violence, the paper by Eddleston et al. in this issue of the Bulletin highlights how intersectoral collaboration can be crucial to furthering the cause of public health.1 With nearly 900 000 deaths from suicide every year, worldwide,2 suicide takes more lives than homicides and wars combined; it is commonly acknowledged that this figure is an un...

Suicide: a preventable public health problem.

Suicide deaths and suicide attempts.

OBJECTIVES This article examines suicide deaths among Canadians aged 10 or older between 1979 and 1998. It also examines hospital records for 1998/99 to provide some insight into suicide attempts. DATA SOURCES Data are mainly from the Vital Statistics Database, the Hospital Morbidity Database, and the Person-oriented Information Database. Supplementary data are from the Adult Correctional Ser...

Pesticides availability and medically serious suicide attempts in China

[Suicide and suicide attempts in old age].