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Suicide: useful links


The Choose Life website is the key suicide prevention portal for Scotland.  This website provides details of local and national activity.

Our Community Profiles include data on suicides and deliberate self harm hospital admissions, and comparisons can be made across communities and constituencies in Scotland.

A report by Meltzer and others titled Non-fatal suicidal behaviour among adults aged 16 to 74 in Great BritainPDF Button(575kb) presents the analysis of the data on suicidal thoughts and attempts collected in the 2000 ONS survey of psychiatric morbidity among adults in Great Britain.

The WHO suicide prevention site includes international comparisons of suicides.

Another resource which may be of interest is the National confidential inquiry into suicides and homicides by people with mental illness.