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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and 
    Ratele, Kopano; Suffla, Shahnaaz (HSRC, 2011)
    The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission took place in Cape Town. On 2 April 1996 four mothers testified that Security Forces killed their sons during an ...
  • Racist sexualisation and sexualised 
    Shefer, Tamara; Ratele, Kopano (Macmillan, 2011)
    In an effort to disentangle the threads of the complex, interwoven fabric of apartheid sexualities, this paper draws on narratives of the Apartheid Archive Project to explore the sexualizing force of racism and the ...
  • Tracing the utility of injury surveillance data in Pretoria (South Africa) and Boras (Sweden) 
    Gouveia, Joanne; Seedat, Mohamed; Ekman, Robert; Stark Ekman, Diana; Bowman, Brett (2011)
    Our research attempted to study the factors that influenced the use of injury data in two cities, representing different injury and socio-economic profiles. In Pretoria, the capital South African city, injury data uptake ...
  • Discursive constructions of the Israel-Hezbollah war: The struggle for representation 
    Lau, Ursula; Seedat, Mohamed; McRitchie, Victoria (Fullerton, 2011-04)
    The media plays a contributing influence in exacerbating hostilities between war protagonists. Through particular representations, specific groups are either hailed or vilified; thereby resulting in a ‘spill-over effect’ ...
  • Community Psychology in South Africa: Origins, Developments and Manifestations 
    Seedat, Mohamed; Lazarus, Sandy (Blackwell & Wiley, 2011-04)
    This article represents a South African contribution to the growing international body of knowledge on histories of community psychology. The authors trace the early antecedents of social-community psychology interventions ...
  • 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 ...
  • Community-based Participatory Research a Low-income Setting : An Illustrative Case of Study 
    Lazarus, Sandy; Taliep, Naiema; Bulbulia, Abdulsamed; Phillips, Shaun; Seedat, Mohamed (AJOL, 2012)
    This article describes a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach in a low-income setting. Using the SCRATCHMAPS project as a case example and with literature control, we show that CBPR is influenced by ...
  • Young Black Men’s Risk to Firearm Homicide in Night Time 
    Kramer, Sherianne; Ratele, Kopano (MRC-UNISA, 2012)
    Based on data from the South African National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS), an epidemiological surveillance system of fatal injuries, this article reports on a retrospective analysis of the data on homicide ...
  • 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 ...
  • Talking South African fathers: a critical examination of men’s 
    Ratele, Kopano; Shefer, Tamara; Clowes, Lindsay (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2012)
    The absence of biological fathers in South Africa has been constructed as a problem for children of both sexes but more so for boy-children. Arguably the dominant discourse in this respect has demonized non-nuclear, ...
  • Where my dad was from he was quite a respected man 
    Mohamed, Kharnita; Ratele, Kopano (American Psychological Association, 2012)
    The aim of this article is to analyze the operation of nostalgia in the Apartheid Archive Project narratives. In total, a corpus of 138 narratives was read with nostalgia as a frame and 23 narratives were selected for ...
  • Child maltreatment prevention through positive parenting practices 
    Ismail, Ghouwa; Taliep, Naiema; Suffla, Shahnaaz (MRC-UNISA, 2012-01)
    Child maltreatment is a global problem with serious consequences. It affects the entire community as it does not only occur within the family context, but spills over into the community and broader society. Child ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...

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