An integrative approach and application of project management technologies are the basis of the National Suicide Prevention Strategies. World experience confirms the effectiveness of strategies and justifies a regular repetition of their life cycles. The absence of such programmes in Russia should encourage regional and federal authorities to develop them.
Objective: to present the design of the regional suicide prevention program and to identify control points for its implementation.
Materials and Methods: data on the Suicide Prevention Strategies has been synthesized through accessible publications. Among them WHO materials, PubMed resources, information from websites of foreign and domestic governmental organizations, professional communities.
Results. The article considers the model of regional strategy for suicide prevention as a program with multi-project management, which includes five consecutive stages: preparation, planning, organization — implementation, creation of concrete results and completion of the program. The system approach of the model is to simultaneously implement its components from individual interventions to large-scale public health interventions. The strategy presented in this paper focuses on four main areas of influence: improving the health literacy of the population and the medical community on suicide, accessible and high-quality specialized care, programme research and reflection, and the establishment of a programme management system.
Conclusions: the given version of the regional suicide prevention strategy is a reinterpreted universal model, which, according to the authors, can be useful in the conditions of the national health care system.