Beyond Legislative Lethal Means Restriction Approaches to Suicide Prevention

[摘要] firearm suicideERPOred flag lawlethal means restrictionsuicide preventionAccess to lethal means during a suicidal crisis is strongly linked to suicide, although which lethal means represents the highest risk in any particular case depends on specific cultural and contextual factors.1 For example, pesticide ingestion is estimated to account for approximately 30 percent of suicides globally and historically accounted for up to 80 percent of suicides in certain rural areas of southeast Asia.2,3 In other locations where natural and man-made points of elevation are readily accessible, jumping suicides tend to be highly concentrated in particular suicide “hot-spots.”4 As passenger car ownership increased, some countries observed corresponding increases in the number of suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning.

[学科分类] 儿科学

[关键词] firearm suicide;ERPO;red flag law;lethal means restriction;suicide prevention