{"id":10057,"date":"2019-09-12T15:34:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10057"},"modified":"2019-09-12T15:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:04:46","slug":"explained-a-suicide-every-40-seconds-taking-stock-of-global-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-a-suicide-every-40-seconds-taking-stock-of-global-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: A suicide every 40 seconds, taking stock of global trends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The<strong> <\/strong>World Health Organization(WHO) has released a study which shows that suicides account for one death every 40 seconds.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key findings of the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The study has shown that close to 8 lakh people die due to suicide every year.In other words,suicides account for one death every 40 seconds.<\/li><li>The global age-standardized suicide rate for 2016 was 10.5 per 100,000.<\/li><li>The study has shown that 79% of the world\u2019s suicides occurred in low- and middle-income countries.But high-income countries also had the highest rate at 11.5 per 100 000.<\/li><li>Further,nearly three times as many men as women die by suicide in high-income countries,in contrast to low- and middle-income countries, where the rate is more equal.<\/li><li>The study has also said that suicide was the second leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 years after road injury.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recommendations:<\/strong>The key interventions that have shown success in reducing suicides are&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>restricting access to means<\/li><li>educating the media on responsible reporting of suicide<\/li><li>implementing programmes among young people to build life skills that enable them to cope with life stresses<\/li><li>Early identification, management and follow-up of people at risk of suicide.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Attempt to commit suicide not an offence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Parliament had passed the Mental health care Act in 2017.This act had brought changes in Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code (which criminalized attempted suicide).<\/li><li>The act says that a person who attempts to commit suicide will be presumed to be suffering from severe stress and shall not be subjected to any investigation or prosecution.<\/li><li>The act also envisages the establishment of Central Mental Health Authority and State Mental Health Authority.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The World Health Organization(WHO) has released a study which shows that suicides account for one death every 40 seconds. Facts: Key findings of the study: The study has shown that close to 8 lakh people die due to suicide every year.In other words,suicides account for one death every 40 seconds. The global age-standardized suicide rate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-a-suicide-every-40-seconds-taking-stock-of-global-trends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: A suicide every 40 seconds, taking stock of global trends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1906,1089],"class_list":["post-10057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-suicide","tag-who","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704639674},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}