Citation

Bertolote JM, Fleischmann A, Eddleston M, Gunnell D. Br. J. Psychiatry 2006; 189(3): 201-203.

Affiliation

Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. (bbertolotej@who.int)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

10.1192/bjp.bp.105.020834

PMID

16946353

PMCID

PMC2493385

Abstract

Self-poisoning with pesticides accounts for about a third of all suicides worldwide. To tackle this problem, the World Health Organization announced a global public health initiative in the second half of 2005. Planned approaches were to range from government regulatory action to the development of new treatments for pesticide poisoning. With broad-based support, this strategy should have a major impact on the global burden of suicide.

Language: en