632 - Investigating the Why of Suicide: Maryland's New Suicide Fatality Review Committee
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Show Notes
A new committee in Maryland is charged with a big undertaking: investigating deaths by suicide to help inform prevention efforts. Mental health expert and committee member Dr. Holly Wilcox talks with Stephanie Desmon about how they'll gather data, which includes psychological autopsies, digital health care records, social service agency data and more, and gives some examples of how similar committees in other states have used data in innovative ways to inform interventions. Learn more: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/investigating-the-why-of-suicide