ECONOMIC BURDEN OF SUICIDE ACTION AND ECONOMIC EFFECTIVE PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Suicide and suicide attempts lead to significant annual economic losses. The direct losses from suicide in workplaces, is about 2 billion rubles per year in the Grodno Region. The cost of medical care in hospitals for perpetrators of suicide attempts is about I billion rubles per a year. Cost-effectiveness of organizational health measures, taking into account only the direct losses in workplaces, was more than 0.6 billion rubles in the period 2010-2014. Timely providing psychotherapeutic care at the outpatient organization for persons likely to commit suicide allows reducing the costs of specialized health care in hospitals dozens of times.