In recent years, suicide has become one of the most important public health problems in the world. According to WHO data, one person commits suicide every 40 seconds in the world, which is equivalent to 6.5438+0 million people who die of suicide every year. This figure is more than the total number of deaths caused by war and murder, equivalent to 20 times (20 million) people who have tried to commit suicide. At present, suicide has become one of the main causes of human death, which has brought serious health and social burden, but it has not attracted enough attention from the public.
IASP established
In order to arouse people's attention to suicide, the International Association for the Prevention of Suicide (IASP) was established in Vienna with the telephone number 65438-0960. The organization aims to raise public awareness of the seriousness of suicide and increase their understanding of suicide prevention measures. Scholars, medical workers, social workers and volunteers from all over the world gathered in the association, and they cooperated to study the suicide problem and the effective methods to prevent suicide.
Since then, the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the World Health Organization jointly decided in 2003 to designate 10 every September as the "World Suicide Prevention Day", in order to strengthen the appeal to governments, suicide prevention associations and institutions, local communities, medical workers and volunteers to join in various local actions, * * * to study the suicide problem and effective methods to prevent suicide, to raise public awareness of the importance of suicide problems and reduce the suicide rate. The slogan of the first World Suicide Prevention Day is "Too many suicides", and there are different themes every year.
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Perhaps most people think that suicide is far away from us, but this is not the case. Suicide has become the second leading cause of death among people aged 15-29, and one person's suicide will affect at least six people. Its great influence means that each of us needs to take action, as the theme of World Suicide Prevention Day in 2005 said: "It is everyone's responsibility to prevent suicide". Therefore, we must understand suicide and care for people who have suicidal tendencies.
Suicide is a complex problem, not a single cause. It is the result of interaction of biological, genetic, psychological, social, cultural and environmental factors.
Young and middle-aged people commit suicide because of academic pressure, work pressure, emotional injury and family conflicts. , easy to be depressed, lack of mature emotional adjustment ability, easy to take things too hard and make irrational behavior; However, after the death of a relative and the deterioration of physical health, the elderly's ability to take care of themselves or perform social duties will gradually weaken, the scope of interpersonal communication will narrow or even isolate themselves, and their sense of self-worthlessness will become stronger and stronger, which will lead to suicide.