(Press-News.org) DETROIT (June 20, 2024)— Mental health experts from across the globe will gather to share insights, best practices, and innovations for preventing suicide during the 5th Zero Suicide International Summit June 24-25 in Liverpool, England.
Named for the innovative, evidence-based suicide intervention model developed at Henry Ford Health, the Zero Suicide International Summit is presented by the Detroit-based healthcare system in partnership with Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) and The Kevin and Margaret Hines Foundation.
The Zero Suicide model was developed at Henry Ford Health in 2001. Within a year of implementing the strategy, Henry Ford experienced an approximately 75% suicide reduction rate. The model has been adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. It’s been implemented by health systems across the U.S. and in more than 20 countries.
“Suicide knows no borders. We know the Zero Suicide model works. This international summit is an important opportunity to bring people together to build collaborations as we work to prevent suicide globally,” said Brian Ahmedani, Ph.D., co-director of Zero Suicide International.
According to the World Health Organization, suicide claims the lives of more than 700,000 people around the world each year. Many more attempt suicide. It is the fourth leading cause of death among 15 to 29 years-olds.
For the first time the summit will feature Zero Suicide programs and opportunities in low-and middle-income countries, with a special focus on Asia, where more than half of all global suicides occur.
On the first day of the summit Ahmedani will present a new body of research, conducted in partnership with the Kaiser Permanente, evaluating the implementation of the Zero Suicide Model across six health systems serving more than 10 million patients per year. Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, it was the largest study ever conducted of Zero Suicide implementation.
“These studies demonstrate that Zero Suicide can be successfully and effectively implemented in primary care clinics, behavioral health settings, and across health systems and lead to a significant reduction in suicide deaths and attempts,” said Ahmedani, who also serves as director of Henry Ford Health’s Center for Health Policy & Health Services Research. “The findings reinforce the purpose of this summit—to expose attendees to novel approaches to Zero Suicide implementation practice, policy and cutting-edge research so they can design and implement programs at home.”
On the second day of the summit, a panel will discuss AI machine learning and technology in suicide prevention practices and call for further investment from the British government and private companies to help with research.
“There can be this negativity about AI technology but at Mersey Care we’ve already found several ways to incorporate it into our suicide prevention work,” revealed Professor Joe Rafferty, CBE, one of the co-founders of the ZSA and Chief Executive Officer of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. “If AI technology is to continue helping research into suicide prevention, then we need investment in the UK and throughout the world.”
Other topics being discussed at the conference include:
• Why Zero Suicide has been adopted as the standard approach within the suicide prevention community
• How it’s been implemented in the USA and Australia
• Funding and return on investment for Zero Suicide
• Workforce wellness within suicide prevention strategies
The full agenda for the two-day summit can be found on its website, which includes other useful information about the event and previous summits, the last of which was held in Rotterdam in 2018.
###
MEDIA CONTACTS
In the United States:
Dana Jay | Henry Ford Health | mediarelations@hfhs.org
In Liverpool:
Rachel Robinson | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust | communications@merseycare.nhs.uk
ABOUT HENRY FORD HEALTH
Serving communities across Michigan and beyond, Henry Ford Health is committed to partnering with patients and members along their entire health journey. Henry Ford Health provides a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care, to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other healthcare retail.
It is one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, recognized for clinical excellence in cancer care, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics and sports medicine, and multi-organ transplants. Consistently ranked among the top five NIH-funded institutions in Michigan, Henry Ford Health engages in more than 2,000 research projects annually. Equally committed to educating the next generation of health professionals, Henry Ford Health trains more than 4,000 medical students, residents and fellows every year across 50+ accredited programs.
With more than 33,000 valued team members, Henry Ford Health is also among Michigan’s largest and most diverse employers, including nearly 6,000 physicians and researchers from the Henry Ford Medical Group, Henry Ford Physician Network and Jackson Health Network.
The health system is led by President and CEO Robert G. Riney and serves a growing number of customers across 250+ locations throughout Michigan including five acute care hospitals, two destination facilities for complex cancer and orthopedics and sports medicine care, behavioral health, primary care and urgent care centers.
About Zero Suicide Alliance
Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) is a suicide awareness and prevention initiative hosted by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and funded via The Mersey Cares NHS Charity. It aims to empower, equip, and educate individuals and organisations by raising awareness of suicide, its contributing factors and helping drive meaningful action to help prevent suicide in the UK and beyond.
Find out more about the ZSA by visiting: www.zerosuicidealliance.com
END
It reads. It talks. It collates mountains of data and recommends business decisions. Today’s artificial intelligence might seem more human than ever. However, AI still has several critical shortcomings.
“As impressive as ChatGPT and all these current AI technologies are, in terms of interacting with the physical world, they’re still very limited. Even in things they do, like solve math problems and write essays, they take billions and billions of training examples before they can do them well, " explains Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) NeuroAI Scholar Kyle Daruwalla.
Daruwalla ...
Changing climate will make home feel like somewhere else
Interactive app shows how climate change will make places around the world feel like they are closer to the equator
FROSTBURG, MD (June 20, 2024)—The impacts of climate change are being felt all over the world, but how will it impact how your hometown feels? An interactive web application from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science allows users to search 40,581 places and 5,323 metro areas around the globe to match the expected future climate in each city with the current climate of another location, ...
What do you get when you cross Norse mythology with a 78-million-year-old ancestor to the Triceratops? Answer: Lokiceratops rangiformis, a plant-eating dinosaur with a very fancy set of horns.
The new dinosaur was identified and named by Colorado State University affiliate faculty member Joseph Sertich and University of Utah Professor Mark Loewen. The dinosaur’s name, announced today in the scientific journal PeerJ, translates roughly to “Loki’s horned face that looks like a caribou.”
Loewen and Sertich, co-lead authors of the PeerJ study, dubbed the new species Lokiceratops (lo-Kee-sare-a-tops) ...
In democracies where civilian control is followed, the power to make crucial decisions, like those of national security, is mainly exercised by elected officials, allowing the citizens who elect them to influence such decisions indirectly. This role can give people a sense of participation in matters of national importance, potentially associated with their political trust. The military, in such cases, advises and helps these elected leaders in serving the nation, rather than assuming leadership itself. A balance between civilians and military organizations is, therefore, crucial for any democracy to thrive, and it is pointed out that civilian control is a requisite of democracy.
Existing ...
Indolo[2,3-a]quinolizidine is a common structural motif in various natural products. Its molecular structure contains the indole ring, a functional group in tryptophan. Tryptophan, an essential amino acid, is required for the production and maintenance of our body’s proteins, muscles, enzymes, and neurotransmitters. Many natural products are derived from it. Over 3,000 monoterpene indole alkaloids (MTIAs), which are natural products consisting of indole rings, have been found in plants, and some of them have been used as medicines. For example, vinblastine has been used as an anticancer drug, and reserpine is used to treat high blood pressure.
The ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – June 20, 2024 – Women who have their ovaries removed before menopause, particularly before the age of 40, have reduced white matter integrity in multiple regions of the brain later in life. White matter refers to the nerve fibers that connect neurons in different areas of the brain.
The findings appear online today in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
“We know that having both ovaries removed before natural menopause causes abrupt endocrine dysfunction, which increases ...
The composition of the intestinal flora can predict the chances of developing serious infections such as pneumonia. Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and the University of Turku, Finland, followed more than 10,000 people for 6 years. More than 600 people who had less healthy intestinal flora developed a serious infection, with this leading in some cases to death. The results of the study are published today in The Lancet Microbe.
The 602 people who were hospitalised due to an infection showed at the start of the study that they had fewer butyrate-producing ...
PULLMAN, Wash. -- A wearable health monitor developed by Washington State University researchers can reliably measure levels of important biochemicals in sweat during physical exercise.
The 3D-printed monitor could someday provide a simple and non-invasive way to track health conditions and diagnose common diseases, such as diabetes, gout, kidney disease or heart disease.
Reporting in the journal, ACS Sensors, the researchers were able to accurately monitor the levels of volunteers’ glucose, lactate ...
Scientists have prototyped a new method for “rationally engineering” enzymes to deliver improved performance. They have devised an algorithm, which takes into account an enzyme’s evolutionary history, to flag where mutations could be introduced with a high likelihood of delivering functional improvements.
Their work – published today in leading journal Nature Communications – could have significant, wide-ranging impacts across a suite of industries, from food production to human ...
A new paper in Biology Methods & Protocols, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that it may soon be possible for doctors to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and diagnose cancer in patients, allowing for earlier treatment. Cancer remains one of the most challenging human diseases, with over 19 million cases and 10 million deaths annually. The evolutionary nature of cancer makes it difficult to treat late-stage tumours.
Genetic information is encoded in DNA by patterns of the four bases—denoted by A, T, G and C—that make ...
