Global Evidence
Researchers and experts by experience continue to develop our understanding of self-directed violence around the world. If you are interested in learning more about this issue, some basic resources include:
Global organisations working on suicide prevention and women’s mental health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, USA) suicide prevention resources
World Health Organization (WHO) suicide prevention and resources World Health Organization (WHO)
Research, policy and intervention resources
Mohsen Naghavi and colleagues (2019)
National Suicide Prevention Strategy
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India (2022)
Prevention of suicidal behavior in females: Opportunities and obstacles
Silvia Canetto (2009)
Lakshmi Vijaykumar (2015)
The Gender of Suicide: Knowledge Production, Theory and Suicidology
Katrina Jaworski (2014)
Women and suicidal behavior: A cultural analysis
Silvia Canetto (2008)
Local Evidence for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has been a global leader in suicide research since the 1990s.
Local organisations working on suicide prevention and women’s mental health
Family Health Bureau
Ministry of Health’s Directorate for Mental Health
National Institute for Mental Health
Sri Lanka Medical Association
Sri Lanka Sumithrayo
World Health
Organization,
Sri Lanka
World Health
Organization,
Sri Lanka
Research, policy and intervention resources
Attempted suicide in Sri Lanka – An epidemiological study of household and community factors
Dee Knipe and colleagues (2018)
Culture, gender and suicidal behavior in Sri Lanka
Jeanne Marecek (1998)
Gendered antecedents and consequences of young women’s suicidal acts in Sri Lanka
Jeanne Marecek and Chandanie Senadheera (2023)
‘I drank it to put an end to me’: Narrating girls’ suicide and self-harm in Sri Lanka
Jeanne Marecek and Chandanie Senadheera (2012)
Preventing deaths from pesticide self-poisoning – learning from Sri Lanka’s success
Dee Knipe and colleagues (2018)
Dee Knipe and colleagues (2017)
Trajectories of self-directed violence amongst women of reproductive age in Sri Lanka
Alexis Palfreyman (2019)
Young women’s suicide in Sri Lanka: Cultural, ecological and psychological factors
Jeanne Marecek (2006)
Following real stories of three women in Sri Lanka, Pain Pathway Stories: A Road to Preventing Self-harm in Women & Girls helps us see the Pain Pathway unfold in everyday ways and spaces in women’s lives. It invites audiences to consider how recognising this pattern and the forms it can take could be helpful in their own social networks.
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