The need for shift in approach to suicide prevention in Australia

Shravankumar Guntuku

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Abstract

This article reviews the current approach to suicide prevention in Australia, which is focused on medical model and argues the need for shifting the approach to social model. The new situational approach should focus on social determinants and consider the risk factors such as aboriginality, unemployment, financial distress and relationship breakdown alongside metal illness. The new approach has been successful in many local interventions. For example, The Shed in Mt Druitt, Sydney is partnering with twenty-eight local organisations to address the social determinants to reduce the suicide rate.
Original languageEnglish
Article number102290
Pages (from-to)150-157
Number of pages8
JournalOpen Journal of Social Sciences
Volume8
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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Copyright © 2020 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Keywords

  • suicide
  • social conditions
  • prevention
  • men
  • health and hygiene
  • Men's Sheds
  • Australia

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