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How, when and where to intervene in self-harm in youth in low- and middle-income countries: Thinking beyond healthcare systems

journal contribution
posted on 2025-03-19, 04:15 authored by S Aggarwal, G Armstrong
Background: Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) account for 78% of global suicides. Self-harm is the clearest antecedent of suicide. The health and social systems have struggled to provide adequate evidence based help to young people with self-harm. In addition, the negative attitudes towards those who self-harm in these settings interfere with help-seeking behaviour. Aims and method: In our submission of a comment, we discuss the reasons for thinking beyond healthcare systems in LMICs to address self-harm in youth and the possible ways to achieve it. Results and conclusion: We truly believe that harnessing the potential of social systems such as schools is important for addressing self-harm in LMICs. We present our arguments in favour of feasible measures that can be implemented to achieve this.

History

Journal

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volume

69

Pagination

1837-1839

Location

London, Eng.

Open access

  • No

ISSN

0020-7640

eISSN

1741-2854

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

7

Publisher

SAGE Publications