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Healthy People 2000 included four suicide prevention objectives:

  • Reduce suicides to no more than 10.5 per 100,000 people (Objective no. 6.1).
  • Reduce by 15 percent the incidence of injurious suicide attempts among adolescents aged 14 through 17 (Objective no. 6.2).
  • Increase to 50 the number of States with officially established protocols that engage mental health, alcohol and drug, and public health authorities with corrections authorities to facilitate identification and appropriate intervention to prevent suicide by jail inmates (Objective no. 6.10).
  • Extend protocols for routinely identifying, treating, and properly referring suicide attempters...to at least 90 percent of hospital emergency departments. (Objective no. 7.12).