Can Fam Physician. 1982 Sep;28:1606-10.
Suicide rates are rising almost everywhere in the west; 3,500 Canadians currently take their lives each year. The causes are complex: conditions in society interact with individual life situations as well as with emotional disturbance, particularly depression. The family doctor has a role to play at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention. As a group, doctors can press for social action aimed at influencing conditions rooted in society, but doctors act most effectively in their own offices when they routinely consider depression and suicide potential in their patients. The article suggests how this may be done and how suicidal thinking and behavior may be managed.
自杀率在西方几乎各地都呈上升趋势；目前每年有 3500 名加拿大人自杀。原因很复杂：社会状况与个人生活状况以及情绪困扰（尤其是抑郁症）相互作用。家庭医生在初级、二级和三级预防中都可以发挥作用。作为一个群体，医生可以推动旨在影响社会根源的社会行动，但当医生在自己的办公室中常规地考虑患者的抑郁和自杀风险时，他们的作用最为有效。本文介绍了如何做到这一点，以及如何处理自杀想法和行为。
