Efficacy of a regional systems intervention for suicide prevention (SUPREMOCOL) in Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands

Introduction Worldwide, annually more than 800,000 suicides occur. In the Netherlands, suicide rates rose from 8.6 per 100,000 in 2007 to 11.4 per 100,000 in 2016. Rates in the province of Noord-Brabant were consistently higher than the national average. Noord-Brabant is a province in the south of the Netherlands covering an area of over 4700 km2 with 2.5 million inhabitants. Although Noord-Brabant has five specialised mental healthcare institutions (SMHIs), and 90% of suicides are deemed related to mental disorders, 60% of those who died by suicide did not receive mental health treatment. How... Mehr ...