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World Health Organization (2013) reported that approximately one million people die from suicide every year and that the known global mortality rate for suicide is 16 per 100,000 individuals.
The suicide rate in many countries exceeds 16 per 100,000 individuals, for example: the Republic of Korea (31.0/100,000 in 2009); Japan (24.4/100,000 in 2009); France (16.3/100,000 in 2007) and in
Taiwan (16.2/100,000 in 2012) (World Health Organization, 2013). In Taiwan, the suicide rate reached a peak of 19.3 per 100,000 in 2006
(Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, ROC, 2013). Hence,suicide prevention centres were created, and a suicide report format was established in 2006 for helping to reduce the high suicide rate in
Taiwan (Suicide Prevention Centre, 2007). Official records in 2011 showed that the suicide rate in Taiwan has decreased to 15.1 per 100,000 (Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, ROC, 2013).
However, the report also shows that the number of suicide attempts has gradually increased since 2006
(Lee, 2013). It is well documented that both culture and environment have an impact on peoples' healing
following a suicide attempt (Sun, Long, Huang, & Huang, 2008; Tzeng,Su, Chiang, Kuan, & Lee, 2010). It is paramount that health professionals recognize and take steps to improve both the internal and
external environment that impacts on peoples' healing process after
their suicide attempt.
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