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The health service contacts of 87 suicides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Josie Evans
Josie Evans*
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health Medicine, East Kent Commissioning Agency, Dover CT16 1JY
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∗Address for correspondence.
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Abstract

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The Health of the Nation asserts that the suicide rate in England and Wales can be reduced by the provision of better health care services. In a sample of suicides in one district health authority, 61% had had contact with health services during the year prior to death, suggesting that improvements in these services could have an impact on the overall suicide rate. However, the proportion who had had prior contact varied between different age and sex groups and individuals in groups with the higher suicide rates tended to have the least contact. Therefore, the impact of health service improvements on the overall suicide rate may be limited.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 9 , September 1994 , pp. 548 - 550
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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