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Implementation and evaluation of the Victorian Suicide Register
- Source :
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol 42, Iss 3, Pp 296-302 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2018.
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Abstract
- Objective: The Victorian Suicide Register (VSR) is a state‐based suicide surveillance system that contains detailed information on people who die by suicide and the circumstances surrounding their death. In this paper, we provide an overview of the VSR and then describe the evaluation, which used the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for surveillance system evaluation as a framework. Methods: The evaluation drew on three data sources to assess whether the VSR: i) embodies the attributes of a good public health surveillance system; and ii) can be used to inform community‐based suicide prevention efforts. Results: There was a high level of acceptability and enthusiasm for having an accessible data collection that can stimulate local action on suicide prevention planning. One of the key challenges identified was data quality, particularly around those data collected in the course of death investigations that are not designed for surveillance purposes. Conclusion: The VSR fills an important gap in the sustained and systematic collection of comprehensive information on suicide, with some key challenges identified. Implications for public health: Findings from the evaluation provide important strategic information for national and international jurisdictions seeking to establish their own suicide registers.
- Subjects :
- Suicide Prevention
Register (sociolinguistics)
medicine.medical_specialty
Victoria
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Suicide prevention
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0302 clinical medicine
Public health surveillance
medicine
Humans
Registries
030212 general & internal medicine
Psychiatry
suicide
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Enthusiasm
Data collection
evaluation
business.industry
Public health
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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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Public relations
Disease control
030227 psychiatry
data
Population Surveillance
Data quality
surveillance
Psychology
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13260200 and 17536405
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....569e0d291c3bbba4eac2add7182cea65