Insights from use of police data for suicide surveillance in India: an interim step toward suicide surveillance in low- and middle-income countries

Vikas Arya; Andrew Page; Peter Mayer; Lakshmi Vijayakumar; Sangsoo Shin; Jane Pirkis; Gregory Armstrong

doi:10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100500

Insights from use of police data for suicide surveillance in India: an interim step toward suicide surveillance in low- and middle-income countries

Vikas Arya
, Andrew Page
, Peter Mayer
, Lakshmi Vijayakumar
, Sangsoo Shin
, Jane Pirkis
, Gregory Armstrong

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University of Melbourne
University of Adelaide
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India is dependent on police data as the only routinely recorded and publicly available data source on suicide. This correspondence considers some of the uses and limitations of using police suicide data in India and highlights how other low- and middle-income countries can potentially benefit from using police suicide data.

Original language	English
Article number	100500
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100500
Publication status	Published - Apr 2023

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Keywords

India
LMIC
NCRB
suicide
under-reporting

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