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Rafiuzzaman Sifat

Md. Rafiuzzaman Sifat, a CSE graduate turned into journalist, works at News Hour as a staff reporter. He has many years of experience in featured writing in different Bangladeshi newspapers. He is an active blogger, story writer and social network activist. He published a book named 'Se Amar Gopon' inEkushe boi mela Dhaka 2016. Sifat got a BSc. from Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh. He also works as an Engineer at Bangla Trac Communications Ltd. As an avid traveler and a gourmet food aficionado, he is active in publishing restaurant reviews and cutting-edge articles about culinary culture.

Vision and hearing loss, Headaches, tooth cavities each affect more than 1 in 10 people

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 7, 2016

News Hour: Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of their birth, their current age and other demographic factors including sex.Although healthy life...
Global progress on reducing unsafe water and sanitation, but diet, obesity, and drug use an increasing threat

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 7, 2016

News Hour: High blood pressure, smoking, high blood sugar, high body mass index, and childhood undernutrition were the world’s leading risk factors for premature death and ill health in 2015. Since 1990, there have been particularly...
Life expectancy rising but 7 out of 10 deaths now due to non-communicable diseases

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 7, 2016

News Hour: The world population has gained more than a decade of life expectancy since 1980, rising to 69.0 years in men and 74.8 years in women in 2015. An important contributor to this has been...
Global Burden of Disease study 2015 assesses the state of the world’s health

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 7, 2016

News Hour: The Lancet publishes the most up-to-date analysis on the state of the world’s health to equip governments and donors with evidence to identify national health challenges and priorities for intervention. This massive effort brings...
275000 women died in pregnancy or childbirth in 2015

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 7, 2016

News Hour: Woman who dies in childbirth, dozens more suffer injury, infection or disease. The majority of maternal deaths are due to haemorrhage, infection, unsafe abortion, and eclampsia (very high blood pressure leading to seizures), or...
Under 5 deaths have halved since 1990, but slower progress on reducing newborn deaths

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 7, 2016

News Hour: Worldwide, the number of deaths in children under the age of 5 has more than halved from 12.1 million in 1990 to 5.8 million in 2015, and the gap between groups of countries with...
Even with charity or cash incentives, activity trackers do not appear to improve health

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 6, 2016

News Hour: Cash incentives helped increase exercise levels at 6 months, but not enough to benefit health, and 90% of participants stopped using the devices once incentives stopped Regularly using an activity tracker (or pedometer) that...
Over half of psoriasis patients do not reach the achievable treatment goal of clear skin in largest global survey

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 6, 2016

News Hour: Psoriasis is a common, non-contagious, autoimmune disease that affects up to 3% of the world’s population.Novartis presented new findings from the largest global survey to date of people with psoriasis, showing many do not...
Yemen central bank crisis raises new famine fears

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 5, 2016

News Hour: Intensive care wards in Yemen’s hospitals are filled with emaciated children hooked up to monitors and drips – victims of food shortages that could get even worse due to a reorganization of the central...
Policies and programmes to support early child development a ‘wise investment’ as 250 million children at risk of not reaching their full potential

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 5, 2016

News Hour: Children who do not meet their developmental potential may forfeit up to a quarter of adult earnings, and cost some low and middle income countries as much as twice their national expenditure on health....

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Rafiuzzaman Sifat

Vision and hearing loss, Headaches, tooth cavities each affect more than 1 in 10 people

Global progress on reducing unsafe water and sanitation, but diet, obesity, and drug use an increasing threat

Life expectancy rising but 7 out of 10 deaths now due to non-communicable diseases

Global Burden of Disease study 2015 assesses the state of the world’s health

275000 women died in pregnancy or childbirth in 2015

Under 5 deaths have halved since 1990, but slower progress on reducing newborn deaths

Even with charity or cash incentives, activity trackers do not appear to improve health

Over half of psoriasis patients do not reach the achievable treatment goal of clear skin in largest global survey

Yemen central bank crisis raises new famine fears

Policies and programmes to support early child development a ‘wise investment’ as 250 million children at risk of not reaching their full potential

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