Suicide: a concept analysis.
Background: Suicide is a national and global phenomenon with its rate increasing every year inspite of clinicians, policy makers and researchers grappling with suicide prevention and investing heavily in risk assessment, prevention and reduction. There seems to be a gap in the understanding of suici...
| Published in: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 123 - 135 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2017
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