Research on Suicide Assessment, Prevention and Management
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 1092
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Interests: psychiatry; work psychology; occupational health; mental health; stress
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Dear Colleagues,
Suicide carries a significant global burden. Despite being preventable, research on suicide and its prevention has received inadequate financial and human investment. This Special Issue provides a comprehensive overview of suicide, attempt assessments, and prevention efforts around the world, identifying evidence-based approaches for developing policies and programs which can be adapted to different settings. This Special Issue is expected to serve as a foundation for the development and implementation of comprehensive suicide prevention strategies around the world. Suicide prevention begins with surveillance in order to define and understand the problem, followed by the identification of risk, protective factors, and effective interventions, and, finally, implementation, which includes intervention evaluation and improvement, a review of the surveillance, and moving to the next step. There must also be vision, political will, leadership, stakeholder buy-in, and, crucially, funding to help support suicide prevention, along with data to guide its development, implementation, and evaluation. The incidence, characteristics, and methods of suicidal behavior vary across regions, demographic groups, and time. Thus, there is a need to understand the ways to improve the monitoring of suicidal behavior, identify the causes of large variations in suicide rates across regions and countries, and determine the modifiable factors influencing suicide rates through policies and programs.
Considering the above, this Special Issue welcomes papers related to the following:
- Assessment and management of suicidal behavior, mental health issues, and substance use disorders;
- Follow-up and community support for discharged patients;
- Improved access to health care (improved mental health literacy);
- Increased awareness of mental health and suicide (e.g., reduced stigma);
- Intervention and postvention support for vulnerable groups;
- Interventions related to community and relationship risk factors;
- Interventions related to health system and societal or individual risk factors;
- Management of gatekeeper training and crisis support services;
- Measures for responsible media reporting;
- Mental health policies intended to reduce suicide mortality;
- Restricted access to tools (e.g., pesticides, firearms, and hazardous gasses).
Dr. Masahito Fushimi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- community support
- gatekeeper
- health literacy
- intervention
- mental health
- postvention
- prevention
- risk factor
- suicidal behavior
- suicide
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