In order to identify the most frequently strategies used for suicidal behavior intervention, a content
analysis of 7 plans developed by states or nations to prevent suicidal behavior was carried out. 49
strategies were identified, from these 9 inductive categories emerged. Besides a classification of the
strategies was done according to intervention object (directed to the physical or social context or
to high risk people), intervention type (promotion, primary prevention, secondary prevention and
tertiary prevention), and systems of the ecological model toward they are directed to (microsystem,
exosystem, macrosystema, and all systems). It was established that most of the strategies are directed
to: (a) acquiring information and generating suicide related knowledge; (b) improve the mental health
offer processes and the detection and attention routes to suicide cases; (c) intervene the physical or
the social environment; (d) develop primary prevention actions; and, (e) take part on the exosystem.