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    • Professor Jane Pirkis

    Director, Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    Health & Medicine

    We need a new approach to suicide prevention

    Many complex causes may drive someone to consider suicide. Addressing these causes at a policy level will save lives

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    Health & Medicine

    Scaling up efforts to tackle male self-harm

    Men and boys account for 75 per cent of deaths from suicide, making them a key group for interventions, but an expanded national effort to prevent suicide demands that we have evidence of what actually works

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    Health & Medicine

    Men’s self-reliance linked to risk of self-harm

    Data from nearly 14,000 men shows those who strongly identify as self-reliant are more likely to have suicidal thoughts

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