Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»272210.25742/NRIPH.2024.01.007Научная статьяRegional strategy for suicide prevention: first steps and designNosovaEvgeniia S.nosova.evgenya@lenta.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8275-7749AleksandrovaOxana Yu.alexandrovaoyu@nriph.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0761-1838Naval Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Murmansk Oblast, Polyarnyy, Russian FederationN. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health16032024281404625042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>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.<br />Objective: to present the design of the regional suicide prevention program and to identify control points for its implementation.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.</p>regional strategy for suicide preventionsuicidesprophylaxispublic healthстратегия предотвращения самоубийствсуицидыпрофилактикаобщественное здоровье[Vorsina O.P. Suicidal behavior of the population of the Irkutsk Region in 2019. Siberian Bulletin of Psychiatry and Narcology. [Sibirskiy vestnik psikhiatrii i narkologii]. 2020;108(3):92—101 (in Russian). doi 10.26617/1810-3111-2020-3(108)-92-101][Korol'kov E. I., PushkarevaE.V., Popova N.M. 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