Insights from use of police data for suicide surveillance in India: An interim step toward suicide surveillance in low- and middle-income countries

Abstract

India is dependent on police data as the only routinely recorded and publicly available data source on suicide. This correspondence considers some of the uses and limitations of using police suicide data in India and highlights how other low- and middle-income countries can potentially benefit from using police suicide data.

Keywords

• suicide
• India
• under-reporting
• LMIC
• NCRB