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Mon 08 Aug 2009Welfare staff to get suicide awareness training
HEALTH AUTHORITIES are to provide frontline staff at social welfare offices with suicide awareness training following rising concern over the impact of the economic downturn on people who have lost their jobs.
International evidence indicates that that during periods of sustained increases in unemployment, people out of work are three times more likely to consider suicidal behaviour.
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