social marketing - suicide prevention
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Suryakumar TVIT BSSocial Marketing
INTRODUCTION• Suicide is a self impose death
with the intent to die.• "act of taking one's own life".• Suicide prevention camp is
driven targeting everyone for awareness.
• Objective of the campaign is to intervene people who are showing the sign of suicide.
• Assisted suicide is when one individual helps another bring about their own death indirectly via providing either advice or the means to the end.
• This is in contrast to euthanasia, where another person takes a more active role in bringing about a person's death.
• Happens officially over Netherland, Belgium, Switzerland. While on other places it is illegal.
REASONS OF SUICIDE
• Poverty and Inflation• Unemployment / Financial
Insecurity• Lack of education• Frustration• Depression• Uncertainty• Lack of parental support.• Relationship Problem
WAYS ADOPTED FOR SUICIDE
• Suicide bombings• Poisoning• Hanging• Firearms• Drowning• Self-Immolation• Jumping• Use of medicines (in
minority).• Ingestion of insecticides.
ROLE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Suicide can be decreased by:
• Educating people• Notify people who overcome
failures – Joseph Conrad (Author of Book:
Heart of Darkness and filmed as Apocalypse Now)
• Don’t report descriptions of suicide methods.
• Avoid repetition and the word “suicide” in news.
• Avoid dramatic visuals.• Take particular care when
reporting celebrity suicides.– Robin Williams (Hollywood actor)
CONTROLLING SUICIDE• Suicide prevention programs
should be integrated.• Suicide prevention telephone
hotlines.• Initiating school based
interventions.• Suicide prevention interventions
should be pre-emptive rather than reactive.
• Media can educate public about suicide prevention.
• Suicide stories can inform readers about symptoms, warnings and treatments for suicide.
• Youth Suicide prevention• Yellow Ribbon• LIFE• HOPE• Native Cry
Initiative: VIDIYAL
Suicide is a
PERMANENT solution
for a TEMPORARY
problem
AVOID IT..!