TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Media and suicide prevention in Southeast Asia: challenges and directions
JO  - Journal of public health (Oxford)
A1  - Arafat, S. M. Yasir
A1  - Menon, Vikas
A1  - Kar, Sujita Kumar
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1741-3842
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa084
ID  - ref1
ER  -