Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria.
Coroners Prevention Unit, Coroners Court of Victoria.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2018 Jun;42(3):296-302. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12725. Epub 2017 Oct 18.
The Victorian Suicide Register (VSR) is a state-based suicide surveillance system that contains detailed information on people who die by suicide and the circumstances surrounding their death. In this paper, we provide an overview of the VSR and then describe the evaluation, which used the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for surveillance system evaluation as a framework.
The evaluation drew on three data sources to assess whether the VSR: i) embodies the attributes of a good public health surveillance system; and ii) can be used to inform community-based suicide prevention efforts.
There was a high level of acceptability and enthusiasm for having an accessible data collection that can stimulate local action on suicide prevention planning. One of the key challenges identified was data quality, particularly around those data collected in the course of death investigations that are not designed for surveillance purposes.
The VSR fills an important gap in the sustained and systematic collection of comprehensive information on suicide, with some key challenges identified. Implications for public health: Findings from the evaluation provide important strategic information for national and international jurisdictions seeking to establish their own suicide registers.
维多利亚自杀登记处（VSR）是一个基于州的自杀监测系统，其中包含有关自杀身亡者及其死亡情况的详细信息。在本文中，我们将对 VSR 进行概述，然后描述评估情况，该评估以疾病控制与预防中心的监测系统评估准则为框架。
评估利用了三个数据源来评估 VSR 是否：i）体现了良好公共卫生监测系统的属性；ii）可用于为社区为基础的自杀预防工作提供信息。
人们对接纳和热情地使用可获取的数据收集感到满意，这可以促进当地的自杀预防规划。确定的主要挑战之一是数据质量，特别是在死亡调查过程中收集的不用于监测目的的数据。
VSR 填补了持续系统地收集有关自杀的综合信息的重要空白，但也确定了一些关键挑战。对公共卫生的影响：评估结果为国家和国际司法管辖区提供了重要的战略信息，这些司法管辖区正在寻求建立自己的自杀登记处。
