September 3, 2026
“More than 96% of registered suicides in both subjects belong to the three generations above 20, and people under 19 account for fewer than 4% of cases – 87 deaths in St Petersburg across seven years – so whatever happens in the youngest group cannot move the regional rate in either direction.”
“Trials of cognitive behavioural therapy for self-harm recruited unselected patients, so the high-risk label is not what makes that treatment available.”
“Of 4,674,515 eligible visits in 2019, 73 percent carried a screening; of the 128,996 positive screens, 16,094 people reached the brief intervention step.”
“At the site itself the count is 48 deaths in the five years before the barrier and 2 in the seventeen and a half years after. Across Toronto, bridge-related suicide fell 49% in the quarter after completion (IRR 0.51, 95% CI 0.30 to 0.86) and did not rebound over the following seventeen years (IRR 0.99, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.03), with no measured shift to other methods (IRR 1.04, 95% CI 0.90 to 1.20).”
“The line answers 532 calls a day, which the ministry reports as 92 percent of its daily answering ceiling of 580, while the calls arriving average 1,118 a day.”
“The unit of this toolkit is a row – a statement about the service, a yes or a no, the date it will be looked at again, and a line for what the service intends to do.”