
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tobin, Margaret J 
A1  - Clarke, Adam R 
A1  - Buss, Richard 
A1  - Einfeld, Stewart L 
A1  - Beard, John 
A1  - Dudley, Michael 
A1  - Knowles, Michelle 
A1  - Dietrich, Uta 
T1  - Managing organisational change to improve health services for young people with deliberate self harm behaviour
JF  - Australian Health Review
JO  - Aust. Health Review
Y1  - 2001
VL  - 24
IS  - 2
SP  - 143
EP  - 151
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AH010143 
N2  - 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. 
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