Impact of celebrity suicide on population mental health: mediators, media, and mitigation of contagion - Menon V, Padhy SK, Ransing R, Kar SK, Arafat SY.

Celebrity suicide has a negative impact on public health, chiefly by its potential to trigger suicide contagion (Werther effect) among vulnerable individuals. These effects are accentuated by detailed and imbalanced media portrayals of celebrity suicide, a...
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