Want To Reduce Suicides? Follow The Data — To Medical Offices, Motels And Even Animal Shelters
By Maureen O’Hagan
An Oregon epidemiologist is using data to find patterns in suicides, then offering prevention training at the motels where people keep taking their lives, the animal shelter where they give away their pets, the pain clinics where patients struggle. Her model is spreading to Humboldt County, Calif., and elsewhere.