Lakshmi Vijayakumar

"It's a battle for eyeballs and suicide is clickbait": The media experience of suicide reporting in India

Gregory Armstrong, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Anish Cherian, Kannan Krishnaswamy

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

INTRODUCTION: Suicide rates in India are among the highest in the world, equating to over 200,000 suicide deaths annually. Crime r..

The Geographic Heterogeneity of Suicide Rates in India by Religion, Caste, Tribe, and Other Backward Classes

Vikas Arya, Andrew Page, Rakhi Dandonaz, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Peter Mayer, Gregory Armstrong

Journal article  |  2019  |  Crisis: the Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention

BACKGROUND: Caste, tribal, and religious associations, which are perhaps the most important aspects of personal and social lives i..

Surveillance for self-harm: an urgent need in low-income and middle-income countries

Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Gregory Armstrong

Journal article  |  2019  |  LANCET PSYCHIATRY

Mass media representation of suicide in a high suicide state in India: an epidemiological comparison with suicide deaths in the population.

Gregory Armstrong, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Jane Pirkis, Mala Jayaseelan, Anish Cherian, Jane Brandt Soerensen, Vikas Arya, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMJ Open

Objectives Suicide rates in India are among the highest in the world, equating to over 200 000 suicides annually. Reports of suici..

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L Reifels, BL Mishara, L Dargis, L Vijayakumar, MR Phillips, J Pirkis

Journal article  |  2019  |  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Gender differentials and state variations in suicide deaths in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2016.

undefined India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Suicide Collaborators

Journal article  |  2018  |  Lancet Public Health

BACKGROUND: A systematic understanding of suicide mortality trends over time at the subnational level for India's 1·3 billion peop..

Assessing the quality of media reporting of suicide news in India against World Health Organization guidelines: A content analysis study of nine major newspapers in Tamil Nadu

Gregory Armstrong, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Mala Jayaseelan, Ramya Kannan, Jane Pirkis, Anthony F Jorm

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Outcomes of Community-Based Suicide Prevention Approaches That Involve Reducing Access to Pesticides: A Systematic Literature Review

L Reifels, Brian Mishara, Luc Dargis, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Michael R Phillips, Jane Pirkis

Journal article  |  2018  |  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

OBJECTIVE:Pesticide ingestion is among the most commonly utilized means of suicide worldwide. Restricting access to pesticides at ..

Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Simon I Hay, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M Abbas, Foad Abd-Allah, Abdishakur M Abdulle, Teshome Abuka Abebo, Semaw Ferede Abera, Victor Aboyans, Laith J Abu-Raddad, Ilana N Ackerman, Isaac A Adedeji, Olatunji Adetokunboh, Ashkan Afshin, Rakesh Aggarwal, Sutapa Agrawal, Anurag Agrawal, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, et al.

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Lancet

A central storage facility to reduce pesticide suicides - a feasibility study from India

Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan, Shuba Kumar, Rani Mohanraj, Shanmugasundaram Devika, Sarojini Manikandan

Journal article  |  2013  |  BMC Public Health