Araz Ramazan Ahmad

Dados Biográficos

ID4929979
NOMEAraz Ramazan Ahmad
PRENOMESAraz Ramazan
SOBRENOMEAhmad
ASSINATURAAHMAD A R
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Raparin
ORCID0000-0003-4350-1086
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES6
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2022
ÍNDICE H1

  • Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year

    Open AccessDana Bryazka, Marissa B Reitsma et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

    BACKGROUND: The health risks associated with moderate alcohol consumption continue to be debated. Small amounts of alcohol might lower the risk of some health outcomes but increase the risk of others, suggesting that the overall risk depends, in part, on background disease rates, which vary by region, age, sex, and year. METHODS: For this analysis, we constructed burden-weighted dose-response relative risk curves across 22 health outcomes to esti…

  • Quality of media reporting of suicide in Iraq

    Open AccessM Yasir Arafat, Araz Ramazan Ahmad et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2022

    BACKGROUND: Mass media has an important role in influencing the suicidal behavior of the general population. However, the quality of news reporting of suicide has not been assessed in Iraq. AIM: We aimed to assess the quality of news reports in Iraq while reporting the suicidal behaviors. METHODS: The search was done on Google in November and December 2020 with the search term 'suicide news in Iraq' and accessible news reports distributed in Kurd…

  • Perceived Impact of Social Media on Panic Buying

    Open AccessM Yasir Arafat, S M Yasir Arafat et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: Social media has an impact on panic buying by creating fear, disseminating pictures, and videos of people purchasing extra goods in a state of panic during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aim: We aimed to evaluate the perceived impact of social media on panic buying behaviors in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted from October 10 to November 25, 2020. A self-reported instrument was designed in English…

  • Panic Buying in Bangladesh

    Open AccessM Yasir Arafat, Kum Fai Yuen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Background: As an erratic human behavior, panic buying is an understudied research area. Although panic buying has been reported in the past, it has not been studied systematically in Bangladesh. Aim: This study aimed to explore the characteristics of panic buying episodes in Bangladesh in comparison to current concepts. Methods: A retrospective and explorative search were done using the search engine Google on November 6, 2020, with the search t…

  • Examining perceptions towards war/peace journalism

    Open AccessShabir Hussain, Araz Ramazan AhmadARTICLEInternational Communication Gazette2021Citada por: 6Referências: 10

    Following seminal study on journalistic attitudes towards wars and peace journalism, in this study we investigated the perceptions of conflict reporters in the three most deadly countries in the world including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. A total of 317 journalists participated in this study. Though generally we found support for the earlier study, the analysis shows journalists engage in wider practices than predicted that overlap war and pe…

  • The Impact of Social Media on Panic During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Iraqi Kurdistan

    Open AccessAraz Ramazan Ahmad, Hersh Rasool MuradARTICLEJournal of Medical Internet…2020

    BACKGROUND: In the first few months of 2020, information and news reports about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were rapidly published and shared on social media and social networking sites. While the field of infodemiology has studied information patterns on the Web and in social media for at least 18 years, the COVID-19 pandemic has been referred to as the first social media infodemic. However, there is limited evidence about whether and how…