Although recent years have seen large decreases in the overall global rate of suicide
fatalities, this trend is not reflected everywhere. Suicide and suicidal behaviour continue to …

Introduction Suicide is a global mental health problem for people of all ages. While rates of
suicide in children and adolescents are reported as lower than those in older populations …

The past 20 years have seen dramatic rises in suicide rates in the United States and other
countries around the world. These trends have been identified as a public health crisis in …

Suicide is one of the major causes of death in young people, in whom suicide can occur in
clusters. In this Review, we have investigated definitions and epidemiology of such clusters …

This study examines depression-related chatter on Twitter to glean insight into social
networking about mental health. We assessed themes of a random sample (n= 2000) of …

This is the third of three reports in the MMWR supplement that updates and expands CDC's
guidance for assessing, investigating, and responding to suicide clusters based on current …

Objectives Despite the common use of contagion to analogize the spread of suicide, there is
a lack of rigorous assessment of the underlying concept or theory supporting the use of this …

Research suggests that suicide can socially diffuse through social relationships and social
contexts; however, little is known about the mechanisms that facilitate this diffusion. Using …

Transmission is an important concept in suicide prevention. It can occur when exposure to
another person's death by suicide (or to suicide-related information more generally) draws …

Durkheim's theory of suicide remains one of the quintessential “classic” theories in
sociology. Since the 1960s and 1970s, however, it has been challenged on theoretical and …