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Pragmatic Considerations of Culture in Preventing Suicide
September 9 – 10, 2004
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
U.S. suicide rate patterns associated with age, gender and ethnicity provide profound evidence that culture is associated with suicide risk and protective factors. On September 9-10, 2004, the NIH Office of Rare Diseases, National Institute of Mental Health, Indian Health Service, Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, and Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network co-sponsored a workshop entitled “Pragmatic Considerations of Culture in Preventing Suicide.”