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Two workshops were convened for the committee on the Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adult and Adolescent Suicide of the Institute of Medicine. Workshop I was on Risk Factors for Suicide and convened on March 14, 2001. Workshop II was on Suicide Prevention and Intervention and convened on May 14, 2001.
The two workshops were designed to allow invited presenters to share with the committee and other workshop participants their particular expertise in suicide, and to discuss and examine the existing knowledge base.
The two workshops were part of the information-gathering activities that inform the work of the committee. It was the committee's task to assess the science base of suicide etiology, evaluate the current status of suicide prevention, and examine current strategies for the study of suicide. Its full report will includes consensus statements on the scientific literature of the causes of and risk factors for suicide, and illuminates contentious issues and gaps in the knowledge base that should guide prevention efforts and intervention.
This is the summary for Workshop I, Risk Factors for Suicide.
Also see Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Summary of a Workshop and the committee's final report, Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
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Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
Every year approximately 30,000 people die by suicide in the United States, and one million worldwide. Over the last 100 years, suicides have out-numbered homicides by at least 3 to 2. Concerned about high suicide rates, several federal agencies joined together to ask the Institute of Medicine to convene the Committee on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide to examine the state of the science base, gaps in our knowledge, strategies for prevention, and research designs for the study of suicide. The committee's report, Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative, explores what is known about the epidemiology, risk factors, and interventions for suicide and suicide attempts.
Released: June 17, 2002
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Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Summary of a Workshop
Two workshops were convened for the committee on the Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adult and Adolescent Suicide of the Institute of Medicine. Workshop I was on Risk Factors for Suicide and convened on March 14, 2001. Workshop II was on Suicide Prevention and Intervention and convened on May 14, 2001.
Released: November 15, 2001