In the first instance, the Public Health Agency, the services given clear political mandate to push suicide prevention. Can not it be a whole new government agency created for that purpose, consider the debaters in Dagens Nyheter.
To achieve the zero target for suicide, which has been successful in reducing traffic fatalities, there should also be a scientific basis for the work to achieve zero defect. There are gaps in the research on suicide prevention, write the authors.
They also believe that it requires a system to monitor and follow up the vision of zero, with annual and longer term objectives.
Die every year about 1,500 people in Sweden, by suicide, according to Mind. It is about five times more than traffic fatalities. The zero vision adopted by Parliament for suicide in 2008 is virtually unknown and have not been successful, suicide can be prevented, writes debaters.
Mind is a nonprofit association for mental health, former Swedish association for mental health.
Debaters are Cecilia Modig, president of the organization, Carl von Essen, Secretary General, Marie Åsberg, professor of psychiatry at Karolinska Institutet and Director of Mind, Jan Beskow, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Gothenburg. Per-Anders Rydelius, professor of child and ungdomspsykatri, KI, and Joan Mosskin, psychologist and member of the Mind.
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