Suicide Prevention in
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2009
New Zealand Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2008-2012 Report on Progress: Year One
This report provides a snapshot of the key developments in the first year of implementing the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2008-2012
Intentional Self-harm Hospitalisations 2007 (provisional)
This publication presents and summarises admissions to hospital for intentional self-harm during 2007, sourced from the New Zealand National Minimum Dataset
2008
Suicide Facts: Deaths and intentional self-harm hospitalisations 2006
This annual statistical publication presents and summarises suicide information received from the New Zealand Mortality Collection, and admissions to hospital for intentional self-harm sourced from the New Zealand National Minimum Dataset.
New Zealand Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2008-2012
The New Zealand Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2008-2012 provides detail about how the goals of the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016 will be achieved over the next five years. The Action Plan describes the types of actions required across the range of sectors involved in suicide prevention.
2007
Suicide Facts: 2005–2006 data
Suicide Facts is the Ministry of Health’s annual publication of suicide statistics. It includes data on suicide death rates by age group, gender, ethnicity, international comparisons, and hospitalisations for intentional self harm.
After a suicide of someone you know: Information and support for young people (www.spinz.org.nz)
This resource provides young people with information about grief reactions, questions that are commonly asked and how to cope with grief.
2006
New Zealand Suicide Trends: Mortality 1921–2003, hospitalisations for intentional self-harm 1978–2004
New Zealand Suicide Trends: Mortality 1921–2003, hospitalisations for intentional self-harm 1978–2004 summarises trends on suicide and hospitalisations for intentional self-harm by sex, ethnicity, age group, socio-economic status, District Health Board and method.
Suicide Facts: 2004–2005 data
Suicide Facts is the Ministry of Health’s annual publication of suicide statistics. It includes data on suicide death rates by age group, gender, ethnicity, international comparisons, and hospitalisations for intentional self harm.
Te Rau Hinengaro: The New Zealand Mental Health Survey
This survey describes the prevalence of major mental disorders and suicidal behaviours in the New Zealand population. It also reports associated sociodemographic factors, health service use and physical functioning.
New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016
The New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016 provides a framework to guide New Zealand suicide prevention efforts over the next 10 years.
Suicide Facts: Provisional 2003 All-Ages Statistics
Suicide Facts is the Ministry of Health’s annual publication of suicide statistics. It includes data on suicide death rates by age group, gender, ethnicity, international comparisons, and hospitalisations for intentional self harm.
2005
Social Explanations for Suicide in New Zealand
This suite of six Otago University, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences research reports explores a range of social explanations for the trends in New Zealand’s suicide rates to 1999.
New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy: A life worth living: consultation document - submission analysis
The Ministry of Health, along with the Ministry of Youth Development, held 20 consultation meetings throughout New Zealand and received 106 written submissions. These submissions, including comments made at the consultation meetings, have been been analysed and will help inform the revision of the Strategy.
The Cost of Suicide to Society
The Cost of Suicide report estimates the cost of the 460 suicides and 5095 attempted suicides in 2002 to total $1,381,492,000 - nearly $1.4 billion. Each suicide was estimated to cost a total of $2,931,250. The report breaks down the total into economic and non-economic costs.
Suicide Prevention - A review of evidence of risk and protective factors, and points of effective intervention
This report provides a literature review of the risk and protective factors that contribute to the risk of suicidal behaviour and outlines points of effective intervention for suicide prevention activities in New Zealand.
Draft New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy - A Life Worth Living
This resource was a consultation document for the development of the New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016.
Having Suicidal Thoughts? Information for you, and for family, whānau, friends and support network (PDF 454 KB) (www.nzgg.org.nz)
This brochure provides information about who to ask for help, how to look after yourself, how to support someone, and where to get further information.
After a suicide: Practical information for people bereaved by suicide
After a suicide: practical information for people bereaved by suicide helps people deal with practical issues following a suicide and suggests some ways of answering difficult questions, coping with grief and caring for yourself.
Guidance for community organisations involved in suicide postvention
Guidance for community organisations involved in suicide prevention aims to help community organisations that are providing support to those bereaved by suicide. The document provides information about how organisations can go about establishing a community initiative, as well as suggesting some activities that a community initiative could be involved in.
New Zealand Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy Evaluation Phase One and Phase Two (www.msd.govt.nz) (Phase One 2003, Phase Two 2005)
2004
Suicide and the Media: A study of the media response
A study aimed to scope the awareness of media professionals about the Ministry of Health's suicide reporting resource developed to identify the media’s issues and concerns about the use of guidelines; and to identify a means of addressing those concerns.
Research Reports on Support Services and Resources
The Ministry of Youth Development commissioned research to identify and assess the types of support services and/or resources needed by families, whānau and significant others bereaved by suicide (postvention) and for those affected by a suicide attempt (post-attempt).
2003
Youth Suicide Prevention in Schools: A Practical Guide
This guide provides practical advice for schools about their role in suicide prevention and outlines criteria that schools can use to assess external providers of suicide-related programmes or activities.
Evidence for Student Focused School-based Suicide Prevention Programmes: Criteria for External Providers
This report examines effectiveness and safety issues associated with school-based student-focused suicide prevention programmes.
Suicide Prevention Guidelines - Assessment and Management of People at Risk of Suicide: For Emergency Departments and Mental Health Services Acute Assessment Settings (PDF, 1 MB) (www.nzgg.org.nz)
These guidelines are a resource for clinical staff in emergency departments and mental health clinicians when assessing and working with people who have made a suicide attempt or are at risk of suicide.
2001
New Zealand Health Strategy DHB Toolkit for Suicide Prevention
This toolkit provides guidance to district health boards (DHBs) on the most effective ways in which they can work to reduce the rate of suicide and suicide attempts in their region.
2000
Restricting Access to Means of Suicide in New Zealand
This report outlines issues relating to methods of suicide and the feasibility of suicide prevention through restricting access to methods of suicide. It makes recommendations for 'best practice' approaches to restricting access to means of suicide.
1999
Guidelines for Primary Care Providers: Detection and Management of Young People at Risk of Suicide
These guidelines aim to assist primary care providers to recognise young people at risk of suicide and provide appropriate management or well informed referral to secondary services.
Suicide and the Media - The reporting and portrayal of suicide in the media - a resource
This resource summarises the evidence on the links between the reporting and portrayal of suicide and suicide contagion/copycat suicide, and provides practical advice, such as tips for media reporting or portraying suicide, as well as contacts and resources.
1998
Young People at Risk of Suicide: A Guide for Schools (PDF 148 KB) (www.nzgg.org.nz)
This is a guide to the responsibilities of the various parties within a school and the services and practices that should be developed.
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