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Parasuicide

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Abstract

Having discussed suicide in the previous chapter, the present chapter addresses the related topic of parasuicide, which is being increasingly recognised as a major public health problem. Parasuicide is one of the strongest risk factors for both repetition and eventual suicide and, as such, the topic requires serious consideration. Given that the suicide attempt rate is at least ten to 15 times higher than the actual suicide rate (Böhme 1994), the scale of the problem has important implications for the provision of health services and thus needs to be addressed as a priority in its own right. Parasuicide has been identified as one of the Health For All targets by the World Health Organisation (WHO Regional Office for Europe 1985).

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Kelleher, M.J., Keeley, H.S., Lawlor, M., Chambers, D., McAuliffe, C., Corcoran, P. (2001). Parasuicide. In: Henn, F., Sartorius, N., Helmchen, H., Lauter, H. (eds) Contemporary Psychiatry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59519-6_126

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