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A Tale of a Whale: Creating a space for designing wellbeing in Northern IrelandDr Jo-Anne BichardRalf AlwaniLizzie RabyJonathan WestDr Jak SpencerHelen Hamlyn Centre for Design
Our Future [email protected]
40secondsPreventingSuicide:AGlobalImperative (WHO,2014)
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30people
PreventingSuicide:AGlobalImperative (WHO,2014)
In20minutes
Samaritans:SuicideStatisticsReport (2017)
• 6188suicideswereregisteredintheUK(2015)
• Suicideamongstfemalesisatitshighestforadecade
• Suicideamongstmalesremainsbetween3-5timeshigher
thenforfemales.
• NorthernIrelandhasthehighestsuiciderate
• Overthelast30yearsmalesuiciderateshaveincreasedby
82%(inNI)
• Deathbysuicideunreported(tabooinculture)
• Truefiguresmaynotreflectactualinstances
• Underreportingaglobalphenomena
(Tøllefsen,Hem&Ekeberg,2012)
SuicideCostsKnapp,McDaid andParsonage,(2011)
£1.7million• DirectcostsServices;GPvisits,prescribedmedication,
counselling,funeralcosts,courtcosts,useof
emergencyservices,insuranceclaimsand
medicalservices
• IndirectcostsSocial;timelostfromwork,lostproduction
fromexit/absencefromworkforce,painand
griefexperiencedbyfamilyandfriends
“I’mreadyfortheFoyle”
• Derry/Londonderrysuicideat‘crisislevel’1• EspeciallyamongstTheCeasefireBabies2• NI- highestrateofposttraumaticstressof28countries3
• Traumaintergenerational4
• IdentifiedinHolocaustsurvivors4
1. Mens HealthForumIreland,2013
2. TheAtlantic(2016)
3. WorldMentalHealthSurveyInitiative
4. McLafferty etal,2016
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Many Thanks
Dr Jo-Anne [email protected]
Ralf [email protected]
Lizzie RabyJonathan WestDr Jak SpencerHelen Hamlyn Centre for Design
Our Future [email protected]