National Suicide Prevention Strategy (2022)
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
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Suicide Prevention
India
2022
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The goal of this strategy is to reduce suicide mortality in the country by 10 per cent by 2030. The strategy provides a framework for multiple stakeholders to implement activities for prevention of suicides in the country.Overall objectives of the strategy.
1. Establish effective surveillance mechanisms for suicide within the next three years.
2. Establish psychiatric outpatient departments that will provide suicide prevention services through the District Mental Health Programme in all districts within the next five years.
3. Integrate a mental well-being curriculum in all educational institutions within the next eight years.
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