Chapter
Public Health and Suicide Prevention (IN: Suicide Prevention: Resources for the Millennium, edited by D Lester)
Potter L B
It is argued in this chapter that to effectively prevent the public health problem of suicide, science must be used. This chapter outlines a public health approach which starts by defining the problem & progresses to identifying associated risk factors & causes, developing & evaluating interventions, & implementing interventions in programs. (120 refs.)