16 December 2003

Risk of suicide and related adverse outcomes after exposure to a suicide prevention programme in the US Air Force: cohort study

This new article in the British Medical Journal (v 327, 7428, pp 1376) looks at the efficacy of a suicide prevention program in the US Airforce, and makes observations about how there results can be extrapolated to the wider community.

11 December 2003

Latest ABS data on suicide

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its latest data on deaths by suicide in Australia. The report covers data for deaths recorded up to 2002. It should be noted that "[a]ll suicide data in this publication are based on year of registration", rather than the actual year of death and must have been ruled as suicide by the coroner.