• Community, intervention and provider support influences on implementation: reflections from a South African illustration of safety, peace and health promotion 

  van Niekerk, Ashley; Seedat, Mohamed; Kramer, Sherianne; Suffla, Shahnaaz; Bulbulia, Abdulsamed; Ismail, Ghouwa (2014-06-20)

  Abstract Background The development, implementation and evaluation of community interventions are important for reducing child violence and injuries in low- to middle-income ...
• City-level violence prevention - An overview of local and international literature 

  Seedat, Mohamed; Gouveia JA; Nethavhani M; Bowman B (University of South Africa (UNISA), 2008)

  A growing body of evidence has recognised cities as optimum sites in which to conduct injury prevention research. However, there appears to be an absence of a systematic review of city-level studies in the literature. ...
• Building practice-based evidence 

  Bangdiwala, Shrikant I. (Taylor & Francis, 2012-08-18)

  Policy decisions on how best to intervene in order to prevent injury-causing events are increasingly expected to be based on the concepts expounded by the ‘evidencebased medicine’ (EBM) movement. As defined by Sackett, ...
• Epidemiology of fatal burns in rural South Africa: A mortuaryregister-based study from Mpumalanga Province. 

  Blom, Lisa; van Niekerk, Ashley; Laflamme, Lucie (Elsevier, 2011)

  Aim: The study investigates the epidemiology of fatal burns in the predominantly rural province of Mpumalanga, South Africa. Method: The study is cross-sectional and investigates region specific data extracted from ...
• Health in South Africa: changes and challenges since 2009 

  Mayosi, Bongani; Lawn, Joy; van Niekerk, Ashley; Bradshaw, Debbie; Karim, Salim; Coovadia, Hoosein (Lancet, 2012-11)

  Since the 2009 Lancet Health in South Africa Series, important changes have occurred in the country, resulting in an increase in life expectancy to 60 years. Historical injustices together with the disastrous health ...
• Psychosocial Variables Associated with Coping of HIV-Positive 

  Kotze, Marinda; Visser, Maretha; Makin, Jenny; Sikkema, Kathleen; Forsythe, Brian (Springer Science, 2013)

  To identify psychosocial variables related to the use of coping strategies by HIV-positive South African women diagnosed during pregnancy, structured interviews were conducted with 224 HIV-positive women at antenatal clinics ...
• Unintentional drowning in urban South Africa: a retrospective investigation, 2001–2005 

  Donson, Hilton; van Niekerk, Ashley (Taylor & Francis, 2012-05-12)

  Drowning is a major public health concern in low- and middle-income countries. In South Africa there is sound information and an emerging knowledge base for drowning prevention. However, there remains a scarcity of analyses ...
• Barriers and Enablers to the Use of Measures to Prevent Pediatric Scalding in Cape Town, South Africa 

  van Niekerk, Ashley; Menckel, Ewa; Laflamme, Lucie (Public Health Nursing, 2010)

  Little attention has been paid to the prevention of pediatric scalding injuries in low-income settings, especially from the standpoint of local stakeholders. This study investigates stakeholder understandings of potential ...
• Childhood Burn Injury : A Matter for Hind Swaraj? 

  van Niekerk, Ashley (Sage, 2010)

  This article describes childhood burn injury as a barometer of social inequalities, due to class or gender. Although the issue is not explicitly located within the Hind Swaraj scholarship, the occurrence of burns provides ...
• Meta-stereotypes: Intergroup anxiety in interracial 

  Laher, Hawabibi; Finchilescu, Gillian (2010)

  Previous research postulates that meta-stereotypes (i.e., one’s own perceptions of another group’s stereotypes of the group that one belongs to) affect interracial interaction and causes intergroup anxiety. The present ...
• Watch your man: Young black males at risk of 

  Ratele, Kopano (Crime Quarterly, 2010)

  This article will argue that masculine domination is a crucial factor in black male homicidal victimisation in South Africa, but that this is not always appreciated. Under apartheid it was black men who were most likely ...
• RISK AND PROTECTIVE 

  Clowes, Lindsay; Lazarus, Sandy; Ratele, Kopano (UNISA-MRC, 2010)

  This article reports on a study that sought to elicit the views of male university students on risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence. The participants were 116 third-year students who participated ...
• Urban and rural differences in child injury deaths in 

  Swart, Lu-Anne; Laher, Hawabibi; Seedat, Mohamed; Gantchev, G (UNISA-MRC, 2012-12)

  Injury, a major cause of morbidity and mortality for children worldwide, is concentrated in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite the growing rate of childhood injury in LMICs, effective prevention and control ...
• Sustainable safety volunteerism in the Strand, Western Cape: volunteer identity motivation and socio-organisational experiences 

  Bulbulia, Abdulsamed; van Niekerk, Ashley (UNISA-MRC, 2012-12)

  There is a growing recognition of the relevance and even centrality of volunteerism to adequate collective responses to poverty, housing and the promotion of human rights and, more recently, safety. Volunteerism by members ...
• A critical review of child maltreatment indices: psychometric properties and application in the South African context 

  Ritacco, Guillermina; Suffla, Shahnaaz (UNISA-MRC, 2012-12)

  The public and academic focus on child maltreatment and neglect and their prevention has spawned a range of surveillance instruments and mechanisms intended to identify child maltreatment and measure its magnitude. While ...
• Community Centred Learning: A Pathway to Community Engagement 

  Phiri, Lebogang; Hendricks, Natasha; Seedat, Mohamed (Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2012-12)

  We report on the experiences of participants on a course which represented a pathway to community engagement. The 76 participants (20 males, 46 females), from two low-income South African communities, were part of a ...
• Masculinities without Tradition 

  Ratele, Kopano (Routledge, 2013-02-04)

  The fear of being perceived as gay, as not a real man, keeps men exaggerating all the traditional rules of masculinity, including sexual predation with women’. This view on men’s sexual (Following feminists such as ...
• Community Engagement as Liberal Performance, as Critical Intellectualism 

  Seedat, Mohamed (Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2012-12)

  This article aims to illustrate that engagement is a dynamic and evolutionary process, moulded by contesting ideological, social actor and contextual forces. For purposes of illustration, I draw on a university-affiliat ...
• Evaluating the construct validity of the KIDSCREEN-52 Quality 

  Taliep, Naiema; Florence, Maria (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2012)

  The absence of a suitable measure to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children and adolescents in South Africa, led to the use of the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire, which was developed and standardised ...
• Looks: Subjectivity as commodity 

  Ratele, Kopano (Routledge, 2011-12-21)

  Looking at, seeing, being looked at or being seen by certain people can afford libidinal excitation,1 but it also can be a source of psychical2 displeasure. Reading a series of events, texts, and images, this Article ...

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