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The World Health Organization's role in suicide prevention

2009· book-chapter· en· W2481478324 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Benedetto Saraceno

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicSuicide and Self-Harm Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPopulationTragedy (event)Public healthSuicide preventionMedicinePolitical sciencePoison controlEconomic growthPsychiatryEnvironmental health

Abstract

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Abstract Suicide is not only a personal tragedy, but a serious international public health problem. The majority of suicides in the world (85 per cent) occur in low- and middle-income countries (Krug et al. 2002). Suicide is among the top three causes of death in the young population aged 15–34 (World Health Organization 2001). Whereas national data about completed suicide exists for many countries, similar statistics on attempted suicide are largely missing, reflecting a lack of official or systematic national data collection. Hence, the scale of suicide attempts is not clearly known. Relying on hospital records and population surveys, it is estimated that attempted suicides are 10–20 times more frequent than completed suicides (Wasserman 2001). The Secretary-General of the United Nations in his report to the General Assembly in 1991 drew attention to the fact that suicide was a significant and growing problem, particularly among youth. The ensuing monitoring process revealed a lack of comprehensive national strategies for preventing suicide and, in many countries, rapidly rising suicide rates. In 1993, a United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) International Expert Meeting on Guidelines for the Formulation and Implementation of Comprehensive National Strategies for the Prevention of Suicidal Behaviour was held in Canada, which culminated in a report (United Nations 1996) that included a comprehensive set of guidelines, together with a case study of the Finnish national strategy. These guidelines encouraged the development of national suicide-prevention strategies around the world, for instance, in the United States (US Department of Health and Human Services 2001), where suicide was recognized as a national problem, and suicide-prevention as a national priority, as well as in Europe (WHO 2002b; Wasserman et al. 2004). In 1999, WHO launched the worldwide initiative for suicide prevention (SUPRE) with the overall goal of reducing the mortality and morbidity of suicidal behaviours. The WHO, a specialized agency of the UN, is an intergovernmental organization, established by the formal agreement of, and ultimately governed by, 193 Member States. As the directing and coordinating authority on international health work, WHO stimulates international action on health issues of global concern with the ultimate objective of the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health (WHO 2003). The WHO’s normative function and advocacy role, as well as its convening power in establishing global partnerships, places it in a unique position to provide leadership at global, regional and country levels.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.035
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.059
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.035
Threshold uncertainty score0.185

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0350.059
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0080.005
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0120.007
Open science0.0030.009
Research integrity0.0080.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0330.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.293 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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