- Gunshot suicides in England
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Sutton, Lesley / Hawton, Keith / Simkin, Sue / Turnbull, Pauline / Kapur, Navneet / Bennewith, Olive / Gunnell, David
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Gender, International, Ownership, Suicide
- Keywords:
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ENGLAND, PREVENTION, SOCIAL psychiatry, Suicide, Wales
Gunshot suicides account for a small proportion (2.5%) of suicides in England. A study of coroner records in a sample of 58 gunshot suicides found that 93% of the victims were male, 79% used a shotgun,...
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- The Usefulness of Coroners' Data on Suicides for Providing Information Relevant to Prevention
- Author:
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Bennewith, Olive / Hawton, Keith / Sue, Simkin / Sutton, Lesley / Kapur, Navneet / Turnbull, Pauline / Gunnell, David
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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International, Prevention, Storage, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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CORONERS, ENGLAND, HOMICIDE, MENTAL health services, Suicide
The authors examined coroners’ records for 382 suicides across 24 jurisdictions in England. Generally there was wide variation across coroners in information relevant to specific methods of death. Of...
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- Restricting access to methods of suicide - Rationale and evaluation of this approach to suicide prevention
- Author:
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Hawton, K.
- Date:
- 2007
- Publication:
- Crisis-the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention
- Topics:
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International, Legislation and Policy, Prevention, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Availability, Method
Hawton reviews the evidence that reducing the availability of lethal means of suicide reduces both method-specific suicide rates, and, in many cases, overall suicide rates, using examples involving several...
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