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Suicide prevention

Mental health
How to Write About Suicide
Published Fall 2022
A new online course, designed by a journalist and two Bloomberg School professors, shows how responsible reporting on suicide can help tackle a public health challenge / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Mental health
How to talk about suicide
Published July 12, 2022
Journalist Aneri Pattani and suicide prevention researcher Holly Wilcox developed a free Coursera course for journalists and the public to learn best practices when discussing suicide
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Education
Center will help schools address health, safety challenges
Published May 6, 2019
Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, led by the School of Education, brings together experts from across the university to develop holistic approaches to school health and safety
Public health
High rural suicide rates largely driven by guns
Published Aug 17, 2017
Of every three deaths involving guns, only one is a homicide. The other two are suicides.
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Suicide prevention
Why '13 Reasons Why' alarms experts
Published Aug 10, 2017
Release of Netflix show in March prompted spike in suicide-related web searches, fears of suicide contagion