@article{ref1,
title="Media and suicide prevention in Southeast Asia: challenges and directions",
journal="Journal of public health (Oxford)",
year="2020",
author="Arafat, S. M. Yasir and Menon, Vikas and Kar, Sujita Kumar",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Globally, suicide is a preventable public health issue.1 The Southeast Asia region is the most populated region of the world, comprised of 11 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) accounting for 26% of the world's population with the highest regional suicide rate of 17.7 per 100 000.1,2 Suicide in this region differs from the West, in several aspects; these include the lack of a bonafide mental illness in a significant proportion of those who take their own life, the lower male-to-female gender ratio and the greater elderly to non-elderly suicide ratio.3 Major drivers of suicide in these nations include socioeconomic factors...   © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1741-3842",
doi="10.1093/pubmed/fdaa084",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa084"
}