Abstract

LUNA TASCON, Edwin Gerardo; RODRIGUEZ PABON, Diana Milena  and  SANCHEZ MARTINEZ, Nubia Rocío. ANALYSIS OF THE INTERVENTION NATIONAL PLANS ON SUICIDE. Univ. Salud [online]. 2011, vol.13, n.1, pp.61-73. ISSN 0124-7107.

In order to identify the most frequently strategies used for suicidal behavior intervention, a content analysis of 7 plans developed by states or nations to prevent suicidal behavior was carried out. 49 strategies were identified, from these 9 inductive categories emerged. Besides a classification of the strategies was done according to intervention object (directed to the physical or social context or to high risk people), intervention type (promotion, primary prevention, secondary prevention and tertiary prevention), and systems of the ecological model toward they are directed to (microsystem, exosystem, macrosystema, and all systems). It was established that most of the strategies are directed to: (a) acquiring information and generating suicide related knowledge; (b) improve the mental health offer processes and the detection and attention routes to suicide cases; (c) intervene the physical or the social environment; (d) develop primary prevention actions; and, (e) take part on the exosystem.

Keywords : Intervention strategies on the suicidal behavior; public health; suicide risk; ecological model.

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