Suicide is an ancient and cross-cultural theme and remains a public health problem worldwide. Suicídio - dimensão do problema e o que fazer? Rev Debates Psiquiatr. This is a broad task, because it involves training healthcare professionals for suicide risk (SR) detection as well as prevention and immediate treatment at the different levels of care.
Suicide behavior must be confronted as a public health problem. It may be the result of a multifaceted interaction between biological, genetic, psychological, social, and cultural factors. Suicide is a multi-causal problem for which, to date, no unified reference theory has been identified.
