Ahmed Arshad

TL;DR: The overview findings suggest that among smoking/tobacco interventions, school-based prevention programs and family-based intensive interventions typically addressing family functioning are effective in reducing smoking and Mass media campaigns are also effective given that these were of reasonable intensity over extensive periods of time.

TL;DR: The review findings suggest that micronutrient supplementation among adolescents (predominantly females) can significantly decrease anemia prevalence and interventions to improve nutritional status among “pregnant adolescents” showed statistically significant improved birth weight.

TL;DR: Review findings suggest that interventions including implementing vaccination requirement in school, sending reminders, and national permissive recommendation for adolescent vaccination have the potential to improve immunization uptake among adolescents from low- and middle-income countries.

TL;DR: Subgroup analysis according to the type of interventions suggests that training ± education and the use of safety equipment had significant impacts on reducing the incidence of injuries.

TL;DR: Qualitative synthesis suggests that community based TB treatment delivery through community health workers (CHW) not only improved access and service utilization but also contributed to capacity building and improving the routine TB recording and reporting systems.