
%0 Journal Article
%A Tobin, Margaret J 
%A Clarke, Adam R 
%A Buss, Richard 
%A Einfeld, Stewart L 
%A Beard, John 
%A Dudley, Michael 
%A Knowles, Michelle 
%A Dietrich, Uta 
%T Managing organisational change to improve health services for young people with deliberate self harm behaviour
%J Australian Health Review
%D 2001/06/01
%V 24
%N 2
%P 143-151
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AH010143
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AH010143 
%X Repeat Deliberate Self Harm is a recognised risk factor for completed suicide and therefore reduction by effective healthservice response represents a valid contribution to suicide prevention. However, only a small fraction of people withdeliberate self harm presentations to general health settings actually reach specialist mental health follow-upappointments. Therefore, even if responses at that point are known to be effective they do not make a significantcontribution to reducing repeat self-harm overall. We describe health system organisational change strategies to improvehealth service engagement for the target group, and present data demonstrating the effectiveness of these strategies. 
