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ArticleHealth and human rights2020

Arctic Suicide, Social Medicine, and the Purview of Care in Global Mental Health.

Lucas Trout, Lisa Wexler

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Article in Health and human rights, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05657119 (Family Safety Net), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05657119 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Family Safety Net: Developing an Upstream Suicide Prevention Approach to Encourage Safe Firearm Storage in Rural and Remote

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of MichiganRan2022 to 2025Enrolled58ConditionsSuicide, Accidental Injuries, Firearm InjuryArmsMI FSN - Lethal Means Reduction, Scripted FSN - Lethal Means Reduction, General Firearm Safety Intervention - General Firearm Safety, General Firearm Comparison - General Firearm Safety
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Global Mental Health and Immigrant Families.Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2024
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  12. Covid-19 Requires a Social Medicine Response.Frontiers in sociology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lucas TroutLecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Managing Partner at Siamit, and Fellow at Maniilaq Association, Boston, USA.
Lisa WexlerProfessor of Social Work and Research Professor in the Center for Group Dynamics, Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Institute for Social Research · NOPartners In Health · US

Funding

Suicide Prevention StudyU19MH113138 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS · PI ALLEN, JAMES R., RASMUS, STACY M. · 2017 to 2022
$5.3M
Promoting Community Conversations about Research to end Native Youth Suicide in Rural Alaska - Diversity SupplementR01MH112458 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WEXLER, LISA M. · 2018 to 2022
$3.4M
Supplement: Family Safety Net: Developing an upstream suicide prevention approach to encourage safe firearm storage in rural and remote Alaskan homesR61MH125757 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WEXLER, LISA M. · 2020 to 2022
$1.4M
Developing Effective Proximal Care to Prevent Rural Alaska Youth SuicideR34MH096884 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI DOMBROWSKI, KIRK, WEXLER, LISA M. · 2014 to 2016
$817k
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH112458NIMH NIH HHS R34 MH096884NIMH NIH HHS R61 MH125757NIMH NIH HHS U19 MH113138
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Youth suicide is a significant health disparity in circumpolar indigenous communities, with devastating impacts at individual, family, and community levels. This study draws on structured interviews and ethnographic work with health professionals in the Alaskan Arctic to examine the meanings assigned to Alaska Native youth suicide, as well as the health systems that shape clinicians' practices of care. By defining suicide as psychogenic on the one hand, and as an index of social suffering on the other, its solutions are brought into focus and circumscribed in particular and patterned ways. We contrast psychiatric and social explanatory models, bureaucratic and relational forms of care, and biomedical and biosocial models for care delivery. Within the broader context of global mental health, this study suggests steps for linking caregiving to the health and social equity agenda of social medicine and for operationalizing commitments to health as a human right.

Indexed as

Alaska NativesGlobal HealthMental HealthModels, BiopsychosocialSocial MedicineAdolescentAnthropology, CulturalArctic RegionsHuman RightsHumansInterviews as TopicSuicide

Identifiers

PMID32669791
PMCPMC7348442
OpenAlexW3043692092

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