Preventing suicide by young people requires integrative strategies

Malhi, Gin S; Bell, Erica; Mannie, Zola

doi:10.5694/mja2.51367

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To the Editor: The incisive editorial by Dudley and Lin1 should serve as a clarion call for the development of “more robust strategies with targeted, customised approaches … evidence‐based interventions and peer‐reviewed evaluations”.

University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW

Correspondence: gin.malhi@sydney.edu.au

Competing interests:

Gin Malhi has received grant or research support from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Rotary Health, NSW Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the Ramsay Research and Teaching Fund, Elsevier, AstraZeneca, Janssen‐Cilag, Lundbeck, Otsuka and Servier; and has been a consultant for AstraZeneca, Janssen‐Cilag, Lundbeck, Otsuka and Servier.

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2. Hill NTM, Witt K, Rajaram G, et al. Suicide by young Australians, 2006–2015: a cross‐sectional analysis of national coronial data. Med J Aust 2021; 214: 133–139. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/214/3/suicide‐young‐australians‐2006‐2015‐cross‐sectional‐analysis‐national‐coronial
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