jnur.7.4.13896 Suicide Among Youth: A Preventable Public Health Concern Sobia Idrees Nawroz Bibi Zeenat Shah Wais Mohammad Qarani Journal on Nursing 2231–4504 7 4 1 5 10.26634/jnur.7.4.13896 Suicide, Determinants of Suicide, Youth, Public Health According to a message from the Secretary United Nations on World's Population Day (UNFPA, 2014), the growth and progress of any country is dependent on its healthy and working young population. An estimated 1.8 billion of the world's population are youth who contribute towards socio-economic uplifting of the country and more than 70% of youth are living in developing countries (World Health Organization, 2014). The challenges of communicable diseases are being replaced by the non-communicable disease and risk taking behaviors among youth such as suicide. This paper presents magnitude of suicide worldwide and with respect of some specific countries. It also includes determinants of suicide, i.e., socio-cultural, psychological, and biological followed by brief summary of the paper. November 2017 - January 2018 Copyright © 2018 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=13896