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ORIGINAL: Vendaval
The World Health Organization also tracks violence prevention.
"As of January 2007 three out of six WHO regional committees (Africa, the Americas and Europe) have adopted violence prevention resolutions; there are over 100 officially appointed health ministry focal persons for the prevention of violence; over 50 countries have had national launches of the World report on violence and health, and over 25 countries have developed reports and/or plans of action on violence and health. At the programme level, tens of thousands of people in scores of countries have been touched by violence prevention programmes and victim services established in response to the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention. Advocacy, normative guidance and the planting of programme seeds in many countries must now give way to scaled-up country-level implementation accompanied by a concerted effort to measure effectiveness using the outcomes that really matter - such as rates for violence-related deaths, non-fatal injuries and other violence-related health conditions."
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/global_campaign/en/
The World Health Organization also researches and keeps statistics on suicide as a public health issue.
"About 877,000 people die by suicide every year."
http://www.who.int/mental_health/en/
Chapter 7, Self-directed violence
Method chosenA major factor determining whether suicidal
behaviour will be fatal or not is the method chosen.
In the United States, guns are used in approximately
two-thirds of all suicides (105). In other parts of
the world, hanging is more common, followed by
the use of a gun, jumping from a height and
drowning. In China, intoxication by pesticides is
the most common method (106, 107).
In the past two decades, in some countries such
as Australia, there has been a remarkable increase in
hanging as a means of suicide, especially among
younger people, accompanied by a corresponding
decrease in the use of firearms (123124). In general,
elderly people tend to adopt methods involving less
physical strength, such as drowning or jumping
from heights; this has been recorded particularly in
Hong Kong SAR, China, and Singapore (149).
Nearly everywhere, women tend to adopt ‘‘softer’’
methods – for example, overdosing with medicines
– both in fatal and in non-fatal suicide attempts
(189). A notable exception to this is the practice of
self-immolation in India."
http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/global_campaign/en/chap7.pdf
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