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Suicide is an important public health problem. It is a complex, long-term outcome of mental
illness, with multiple, interacting antecedents. This paper reviews descriptive and analytic …

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Charles Prudhomme, in one of his most important articles published in 1938, The Problem of
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Adolescent suicide remains an international tragedy, yet a common denominator continues
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Social workers encounter suicidal clients; however, little is known about social work's
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Suicide among the elderly is a critical public health problem, yet there remains limited
information on risk factors to target due to the few number of controlled studies that could …