- Part 1 Suicide in a Religious and Cross-cultural Perspective
- part 2 The Magnitude and Implication of Suicide and Attempted Suicide
- Part 3 Theories of Suicidal Behaviour
- Part 4 Political Determinants of Suicide
- Part 5 Social and Economic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 6 Psychiatric and Somatic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 7 Suicide Risk Assessment
- Part 8 Cost of Suicide and Prevention Strategies
- Part 9 Health Care Strategies
- Part 10 Public Health Strategies
- Part 10A Public Health Strategies: Awareness and Education
- Part 10B Public Health Strategies: Early Detection and Health Promotion
- Part 10C Public Health Strategies: Controlling the Access to Means of Suicide
- Chapter 74 Protecting bridges and high buildings in suicide prevention
- Chapter 75 Prevention of suicide by jumping
- Chapter 76 Restriction of access to drugs and medications in suicide prevention
- Chapter 77 Gun availability and control in suicide prevention
- Chapter 78 Restrictions of access to pesticides in suicide prevention
- Chapter 79 Prevention of metropolitan and railway suicide
- Chapter 80 Prevention of suicide due to charcoal burning
- Chapter 81 Restriction of alcohol consumption in suicide prevention
- Part 11 Survivors of Suicide Loss
- Part 12 Young People and Suicide
- Part 13 Elderly People and Suicide
- Part 14 Networking in Suicide Research and Prevention
- Part 15 Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents
(p. 583) Restrictions of access to pesticides in suicide prevention
- Chapter:
- (p. 583) Restrictions of access to pesticides in suicide prevention
- Author(s):
Michael R Phillips
and David Gunnell
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780198570059.003.0078
Intentional pesticide ingestion is one of the most common methods of suicide, accounting for up to one-third of all suicides worldwide. The importance of intentional ingestion of pesticides was initially recognized in Asia and the Western Pacific but it is becoming evident that it is also a significant problem in Africa and, to some extent, in Latin America. Pesticides are employed in about 300,000 suicides annually—primarily in the rural areas of low-and middle-income countries (LAMIC)—so limiting access to these lethal agents could, theoretically, substantially reduce the global burden of mortality due to suicide. Organophosphate pesticides are responsible for a large proportion of pesticide self-poisonings and the majority of deaths.
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- Part 1 Suicide in a Religious and Cross-cultural Perspective
- part 2 The Magnitude and Implication of Suicide and Attempted Suicide
- Part 3 Theories of Suicidal Behaviour
- Part 4 Political Determinants of Suicide
- Part 5 Social and Economic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 6 Psychiatric and Somatic Determinants of Suicide
- Part 7 Suicide Risk Assessment
- Part 8 Cost of Suicide and Prevention Strategies
- Part 9 Health Care Strategies
- Part 10 Public Health Strategies
- Part 10A Public Health Strategies: Awareness and Education
- Part 10B Public Health Strategies: Early Detection and Health Promotion
- Part 10C Public Health Strategies: Controlling the Access to Means of Suicide
- Chapter 74 Protecting bridges and high buildings in suicide prevention
- Chapter 75 Prevention of suicide by jumping
- Chapter 76 Restriction of access to drugs and medications in suicide prevention
- Chapter 77 Gun availability and control in suicide prevention
- Chapter 78 Restrictions of access to pesticides in suicide prevention
- Chapter 79 Prevention of metropolitan and railway suicide
- Chapter 80 Prevention of suicide due to charcoal burning
- Chapter 81 Restriction of alcohol consumption in suicide prevention
- Part 11 Survivors of Suicide Loss
- Part 12 Young People and Suicide
- Part 13 Elderly People and Suicide
- Part 14 Networking in Suicide Research and Prevention
- Part 15 Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents