Background More than half of the global population currently lives in cities, with an
increasing trend for further urbanization. Living in cities is associated with increased …

Family ties have wide‐ranging consequences for health, for better and for worse. This
decade review uses a life course perspective to frame significant advances in research on …

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available
evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with …

The past 20 years have seen dramatic rises in suicide rates in the United States and other
countries around the world. These trends have been identified as a public health crisis in …

Depression affects around 4–10% of the general population in England. Depression can
often lead to behaviors and thoughts related to suicide and aggression, which have a social …

This chapter was prepared when all authors were at Columbia University's Teachers
College; Luthar and Small are currently at Arizona State University. The authors gratefully …

This practice review focuses on the challenges of conducting sensitive and accurate
assessments of the relative risk for suicide attempts and completed suicides. Suicide and …

Child maltreatment is a preventable public health problem. Research has demonstrated that
neighborhood structural factors (eg poverty, crime) can influence the proportion of a …

Indigenous communities have significantly higher rates of suicide than non-Native
communities in North America. Prevention and intervention efforts have failed to redress this …

Highlights•Hispanics are the largest ethnic/racial minority group in the United
States.•Suicide behaviors have grown among Hispanics in the last decade, especially for …