World Mental Health Day 2019 - Focus on suicide prevention

10 October 2019

 

Every 40 seconds, someone loses their life to suicide.

Join us, on 10 October, in “40 seconds of action” to raise awareness of the scale of suicide around the world and the role that each of us can play to help prevent it.


Click here to access the video series on what emergency workers, health workers, teachers and employers can do to help prevent suicide.


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Click here to access handouts on what emergency workers, health workers, teachers, employers, journalists and people working in prisons and jails can do to help prevent suicide.


suicide prevention flyer

Click on the flyer above to find out how you can take part


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Background

World Mental Health Day is organized by the World Federation for Mental Health
This year’s Day is supported by WHO, the International Association for Suicide Prevention, and United for Global Mental Health 



Page last updated 09 October 2019

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WHO-MSD-MER-19.4-eng.pdf



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Message from WHO Director-General for #40seconds suicide prevention campaign

Preventing suicide: World Mental Health Day 2019

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