The high mortality of self-inflicted shotgun injuries to the face relates to the high tissue-destructive energy of a shotgun fired at close range to the target (compared with long range) as well as the "billiard-effect" created by the shotgun pellets.
The high proportion of daily substance use seen in this study may therefore partly explain the increased mortality of self-poisoning patients, even in patients who have not made suicide attempts.
The aim of the RCT is to evaluate the effectiveness of storing pesticides in specially designed lockable containers in reducing the mortality of pesticide self-poisoning as well as the overall incidence of self-harm, and mortality following self-harm.
To the best of our knowledge, this will be among the first economic evaluations undertaken for strategies aimed at reducing the mortality of pesticide self-poisoning.
The present paper outlines the economic evaluation of a pesticide safe storage intervention and four potential strategies aimed at reducing mortality of pesticide self-poisoning in Sri Lanka.
The study will generate new knowledge to an under-researched topic, that is, the cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing the mortality of pesticide self-poisoning.
Analyses of potential preventive strategies aimed at reducing the mortality of pesticide self-poisoning are reduced to modelling and threshold analyses due to the limited data available.
Despite variation in the measures collected and in the lengths of follow-up, most studies find that performance tests predict mortality net of self-reported limitations.
People really up against their mortality and finding that they indeed had the kind of mystical experiences described in the first paper, and that those experiences reset their thinking about their mortality, their sense of self, in a way that turned out to be profoundly helpful.
A clear trend of increasing mortality as self-assessed health became poorer was observed.
Fitness, an objective marker of daily physical activity, is a stronger predictor of morbidity or mortality than self-reported physical activity (15).
