- 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 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
- Part 15A Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: Africa
- Part 15B Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: Asia
- Part 15C Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: Australia and New Zealand
- Part 15D Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: Europe
- Chapter 115 Suicide prevention in Estonia
- Chapter 116 Suicide prevention in Finland
- Chapter 117 Suicide prevention in France
- Chapter 118 Suicide prevention in Germany
- Chapter 119 Suicide prevention in Israel
- Chapter 120 Suicide prevention in Italy
- Chapter 121 Suicide prevention in Romania
- Chapter 122 Suicide prevention in Russia
- Chapter 123 Suicide prevention in Scotland
- Chapter 124 Suicide prevention in Sweden
- Chapter 125 Suicide prevention in Ukraine
- Part 15E Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: North America
- Part 15F Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: South America
(p. 789) Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: Europe
Mortality data on suicide were kept in secret behind the doors of statistical offices in the former Soviet Union. All the draft articles for scientific journals were censored in special ministerial departments, and information considered as state secrets or data liable to ruin the illusory image of consummate welfare, was deleted or rejected.
In 1988, during the Gorbachev reform era, permission was given to form a Suicide Research Group within the framework of the re-established Estonian Medical Association (EMA), and to have access to statistical data (Wasserman and Värnik 1998). According to calculations, the suicide rate was approximately 33–35 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The Baltic republics regained their independence in 1991, and were granted creative freedom. The assistance from the National Swedish Prevention of Suicide and Mental Ill-Health (NASP) resulted in the growth of the EMA Suicide Research Group into the Estonian-Swedish Institute of Suicidology (ERSI), in Tallinn, in 1993 (Estonian–Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute 2008), with economic support from Stockholm Care, an agency of Stockholm County Council and the Swedish Eastern European Committee.
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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 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
- Part 15A Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: Africa
- Part 15B Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: Asia
- Part 15C Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: Australia and New Zealand
- Part 15D Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: Europe
- Chapter 115 Suicide prevention in Estonia
- Chapter 116 Suicide prevention in Finland
- Chapter 117 Suicide prevention in France
- Chapter 118 Suicide prevention in Germany
- Chapter 119 Suicide prevention in Israel
- Chapter 120 Suicide prevention in Italy
- Chapter 121 Suicide prevention in Romania
- Chapter 122 Suicide prevention in Russia
- Chapter 123 Suicide prevention in Scotland
- Chapter 124 Suicide prevention in Sweden
- Chapter 125 Suicide prevention in Ukraine
- Part 15E Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: North America
- Part 15F Examples of How to Develop Suicide Prevention on all the Continents: South America