La santé mentale est une composante à part entière de la santé. La promotion du bien-être, l'offre de soins et l'inclusion sociale des personnes atteintes de troubles psychiques constituent des enjeux majeurs pour notre société. Les problèmes de santé mentale représentaient déjà un enjeu majeur de santé publique avant la crise sanitaire de la Covid-19. Cette dernière a largement contribué à leur intensification, avec des effets qui risquent de s'inscrire dans la durée notamment si les politiques de prévention et de prise en charge ne sont pas renforcées. La crise sanitaire a toutefois permis une prise de conscience collective. Celle que nous avons tous une santé mentale, qu'elle est en grande partie déterminée par des facteurs environnementaux et que la préserver ne relève pas seulement de notre responsabilité individuelle, mais d'une responsabilité sociale et politique.
Adolescent self‐harm is a major public health concern. To date there is a limited evidence‐base for prevention or intervention, particularly within the school setting. To develop effective approaches, it is important to first understand the school context, including existing provision, barriers to implementation, and the acceptability of different approaches.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
In this cohort comparison study, patients who visited the emergency department for suicide-related concerns and received the Safety Planning Intervention with structured follow-up telephone contact were half as likely to exhibit suicidal behavior and more than twice as likely to attend mental health treatment during the 6-month follow-up period compared with their counterparts who received usual care following their ED visit.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
A euthanasia advocate, who was convicted in June after assisting in the death of Alzheimer's sufferer Graeme Wylie, has taken her life. Caren Jenning, 75, who was convicted of being an accessory to manslaughter after helping Mr Wylie take a lethal dose of veterinary drug Nembutal, had been suffering breast cancer.
Two high court judges rejected Debbie Purdy's request for guidelines from the Director of Public Prosecutions on when assisted suicide cases would be prosecuted, saying it was a matter for parliament and not the courts.
There has been growing concern in recent years about whether current law is adequate to deal with misuse of the internet to promote suicide and suicide methods. The Government share the concerns that have been expressed about such misuse, in particular about suicide websites and the influence they may have over vulnerable people, especially young people.
In 2004, Mrs Carol Savage was one of 165 who took their own life while receiving treatment as a psychiatric in-patient.1 With the trial yet to take place, few facts are presently known. The day after voluntarily attending Runwell Hospital, she was detained for treatment under section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (‘the 1983 Act’) with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Having made a number of attempts to leave the open acute psychiatric ward, checks on her whereabouts were prescribed for every 30 minutes. Believed to be at low risk of suicide, Mrs Savage was allegedly left unsupervised on hospital grounds from which she was able to flee, walking 2 miles to Wickford railway station before fatally jumping in front of a train. A coroner's jury concluded that the preventive precautions in place were ‘inadequate’. And her daughter, Ms Anna Savage, claimed that the hospital had breached her mother's right to life by allowing her to escape.
Doctors were forced to allow a young woman to die as she had made a "living will" requesting no medical help if she attempted suicide. They would have risked breaking the law by treating Kerrie Wooltorton, 26, of Norwich, an inquest heard. Miss Wooltorton wrote her living will in September 2007, asking for no intervention if she tried to take her own life.
A. Cousteaux. IEP Paris Ecole doctorale de Sciences Po., Thèse de doctorat en sociologie, (décembre 2011)Thèse dirigée par Alain Chenu, Professeur des Universités à l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.