Mains Question:
Q1. “Suicide is an emerging and serious public health issue in India. While the mental disorders as causative factors are highlighted, the social causes are often under-rated.” Comment (250 words)
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- Introduction- increasing suicide rates in India
- Discuss the social related factors of suicide
- Challenges
- discrimination associated with mental illnesses
- Lack of clarity in the systematic compilation of data
- Potential possibilities of underreporting and misclassifying suicides
- Attributing the cause of suicides to socioeconomic factors than mental health issues
- Required measures
- develop effective, scalable, and innovative strategies for suicide prevention
- Give example of Madhya Pradesh (first State to draft suicide prevention strategy)
- develop the national suicide registry of India
- Continuous, systematic, and sustainable data collection
- Multidisciplinary teams and training
- gender-friendly mental health services
- Wrap Up your answer with a way forward
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