Alexandra Fleischmann
World Health Organization
51 Papers
772 Citations
Alexandra Fleischmann is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Suicide prevention & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 44 publications.
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•Journal Article
Suicide and psychiatric diagnosis: a worldwide perspective.
TL;DR: The World Health Organization (WHO) compiles and disseminates data on mortality and morbidity reported by its Member States, according to one of its mandates, and suicide rates are usually represented by country, year, sex, and age group.
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Psychiatric Diagnoses and Suicide: Revisiting the Evidence
TL;DR: The mental health paradigm in suicide prevention covers just a part of the problem and strategies focusing exclusively on the identification and treatment of depression need to be reconsidered, in particular alcohol-use disorders and schizophrenia.
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Effectiveness of brief intervention and contact for suicide attempters: a randomized controlled trial in five countries
Alexandra Fleischmann,José Manoel Bertolote,Danuta Wasserman,Diego De Leo,Jafar Bolhari,Neury José Botega,Damani de Silva,Matthew Phillips,Lakshmi Vijayakumar,Airi Värnik,Lourens Schlebusch,Huong Tran Thi Thanh +11 more
TL;DR: This low-cost brief intervention may be an important part of suicide prevention programmes for underresourced low- and middle-income countries.
Suicide attempts, plans, and ideation in culturally diverse sites: the WHO SUPRE-MISS community survey.
José Manoel Bertolote,Alexandra Fleischmann,Diego De Leo,Jafar Bolhari,Neury José Botega,Damani de Silva,Huong Tran Thi Thanh,Matthew Phillips,Lourens Schlebusch,Airi Värnik,Lakshmi Vijayakumar,Danuta Wasserman +11 more
TL;DR: The idea of the suicidal process as a continuous and smooth evolution from thoughts to plans and attempts of suicide needs to be further investigated as it seems to be dependent on the cultural setting.