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Suicidal behaviours in North America are occurring more often. Based on present age/sex trends the number of deaths due to suicide is expected to increase over the next 25 years (Haas, 1983). There is minimal agreement about interventions which might be effective in decreasing the frequency of suicidal behaviours. Societal interventions directed to the public health, such as gun control (Boyd 1983) or decreasing unemployment, are unlikely to be feasible. Clinical interventions are diverse, and few effective predictors of success for a particular treatment in a given person-at-risk are available.
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Tanney, B.L., Ramsay, R.F. (1984). The Components of a Knowledge-Based Strategy to Decrease the Frequency of Suicidal Behaviours. In: van Eimeren, W., Engelbrecht, R., Flagle, C.D. (eds) Third International Conference on System Science in Health Care. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69939-9_34
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