{"id":7876,"date":"2022-11-22T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T03:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:02:17","slug":"national-suicide-prevention-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-suicide-prevention-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"National Suicide Prevention Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About National Suicide Prevention Strategy:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the first of its kind in the country, with\u00a0<strong>time-bound action plans and multi-sectoral collaborations to achieve reduction in suicide mortality by 10% by 2030.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The strategy broadly seeks to establish effective surveillance mechanisms for suicide within the next three years.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to establish\u00a0<strong>psychiatric outpatient departments<\/strong>\u00a0that will provide suicide prevention services through the\u00a0<strong>District Mental Health Programme in all districts<\/strong>\u00a0within the next\u00a0<strong>five years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also seeks to integrate a\u00a0<strong>mental well-being curriculum<\/strong>\u00a0in all educational institutions within the next eight years.<\/li>\n<li>It envisages developing guidelines for\u00a0<strong>responsible media reporting of suicides<\/strong>, and restricting access to means of suicide.<\/li>\n<li>The stress is on developing\u00a0<strong>community resilience and societal support<\/strong>\u00a0for suicide prevention.<\/li>\n<li>While the strategy is in line with the\u00a0<strong>WHO\u2019s South East-Asia Region Strategy for suicide prevention<\/strong>, it says it will remain true to India\u2019s cultural and social milieu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Suicides in India:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In India,\u00a0<strong>more than one lakh lives are lost every year<\/strong>\u00a0to suicide, and it is the top killer in the 15-29 years category.<\/li>\n<li>In the past three years,\u00a0<strong>the suicide rate has increased from 10.2 to 11.3 per 1,00,000 population<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The most common reasons for suicide include family problems and illnesses, which account for 34% and 18% of all suicide-related deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/health-ministry-rolls-out-countrys-first-suicide-prevention-policy\/article66166012.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Suicide Prevention Strategy broadly seeks to establish surveillance mechanisms for suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}