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Release: 2012-02-03
Publisher: Congressional Research Service
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN/ASIN: B0077QILNS
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Suicide Prevention Efforts of the Veterans Health Administration pdf
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Responsibility for prevention of veteran suicide lies primarily with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VHA Strategic Plan for Suicide Prevention is based on a public health framework, which has three major components: (1) surveillance, (2) risk and protective factors, and (3) prevention interventions.
No nationwide surveillance system exists for suicide among all veterans; therefore, the actual incidence of suicide among veterans is not known. Surveillance, or systematic collection of data on completed (i.e., fatal) suicides, is essential to define the scope of the problem (i.e., the suicide rate among veterans), identify characteristics associated with higher or lower risk of suicide, and track changes in the suicide rate over time to evaluate suicide prevention interventions. In the absence of a nationwide surveillance system for veteran suicide, the VHA is attempting to determine the rate of suicide among veteran Download Suicide Prevention Efforts of the Veterans Health Administration for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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