title: Suicide in America--moving up the public health agenda.
abstract: Despite improvements in the health of Americans over the last 30 years, the problem of suicide, and its disturbing rise in the last three decades, remains a major American health riddle. Recognizing suicide as a public health concern is essential to discovering strategies to prevent suicide. Such strategies and prevention efforts must be multifaceted, incorporating a number of public health principles and approaches. These approaches include the refinement of epidemiological methods in the study of suicide; development of health education, information, and intervention programs dealing with suicide; and increased community awareness of and participation in all suicide prevention efforts.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011634:Public Health / Q000639:trends*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence; D000092864:Suicide Prevention