Preventive Strategies on Suicide / / edited by René F. W. Diekstra [and three others].
Recent estimates by The World Health Organisation and The World Bank indicate that throughout the world each and every year more than 800,000 persons die as a consequence of suicide. This means that the death toll of suicide equals and in many countries even exceeds that of road traffic accidents. I...
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