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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 21.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2015 Sep 15;387(10024):1227–1239. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00234-2

Figure 2. Model for suicide risk.

Figure 2

Suicide risk is modulated by a range of factors both at the population and individual levels. Population factors related to social cohesion include wide-scale changes to the social structure, societal pressures such as economic turmoil, and social isolation of individuals or groups of individuals. Environmental factors in the population that could impact an individual’s risk for suicide include representation of suicide in the media, accessibility of lethal means of suicide and difficulties in accessing appropriate healthcare. Individual risk factors can be grouped into distal (or predisposing), developmental (or mediating), and proximal (or precipitating) factors, and many of these factors interact to contribute to the risk of developing SBs.