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Black scholarship: Doing something active and positive about academic racism

Duncan N.; Seedat, Mohamed; van Niekerk, Ashley; De La Rey C.; Gobodo-Madikizela P.; Simbayi L.C.; Bhana A. (Sage, 1997)

This 'article' serves as introduction to the Special Issue: black scholarship. As such, it outlines the various articles contained in, as well as the rationale for the issue. In this article the authors argue that programmatic ...
The use of public health research in stimulating violence and injury prevention practices and policies: Reflections from South Africa

Seedat Mohamed; Nascimento A. (2003)

There is a paucity of academic work examining the applicability and utility of epidemiological data in efforts to inform injury prevention policy and practice. Drawing on experiences from two South African case examples ...
How has psychology fared over ten years of democracy? Achievements, challenges and questions

Suffla, Shahnaaz; Seedat, Mohamed (2004)

This Special Issue of the South African Journal of Psychology (SAJP) seeks to reflect critically on the role and relevance of South African psychology in the context of social transformation. Contributors to this Special ...
National Injury Mortality Surveillance System - A call for city-level injury prevention

Matzopoulos R.; Seedat, Mohamed (2005)
Childhood unintentional injuries: the perceived impact of the environment, lack of supervision and child characteristics

Munro, Salla; van Niekerk, Ashley; Seedat, Mohamed (Blackwell, 2006)

Background Investigations into the context and causation of injury, including injury risks, are an essential part of the injury prevention knowledge base. Caregiver perceptions of childhood injury risks may assist in ...
Contraceptive challenges experienced by women who requested termination of pregnancy services in the Mpumalanga Province

Mbokane, A.N.; Ehlers, V.J. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2006)

Although contraceptives are available free of charge throughout South Africa, the number of requests for termination of pregnancy (TOP) services continues to increase. This research investigated challenges preventing women ...
Ndabethwa lilitye: Assumption,

Ratele, Kopano; Mpolweni-Zantsi, Nosisi; Krog, Antjie (2007)

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 ...
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. ...
Analysing males in Africa : certain useful elements in considering ruling masculinities

Ratele, Kopano (Brill, 2008)

Th is article examines the questions why and how African males have been analysed, informed by the view that across several societies in Africa undeclared yet public gender wars of words and deeds go on daily, and may ...
Female homicidal strangulation in urban South Africa

Suffla, Shahnaaz; van Niekerk, Ashley; Arendse, Najuwa (BioMed Central, 2008-10-21)

Background: Female strangulation in South Africa occurs in a context of pervasive and often extreme violence perpetrated against women, and therefore represents a major public health, social and human rights concern. ...
The impact of a home visitation programme on household hazards associated with unintentional childhood injuries: A randomised controlled trial

Odendaal, Willem; van Niekerk, Ashley; Jordaan, Esme; Seedat, Mohamed (Elsevier, 2009)

Background: The continued high mortality and morbidity rates for unintentional childhood injuries remain a public health concern. This article reports on the influence of a home visitation programme (HVP) on household ...
The identification of ‘at-risk’ groups for transport-related

Laher, Hawabibi; Swart, Lu-Anne; Seedat, Mohamed; Mendes Novelo, Safy (MRC-UNISA, 2009)

Road traffic fatalities as a leading cause of non-natural deaths, pose an enormous threat to the public health care sector globally (Harruff, 1998; Forjuoh, 2003; Olukoga, 2003; Santamarina-Rubio, Perez, Ricart, Arroyo, ...
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RISK OF ROAD

Sukhai, Anesh; Jones, Andy; Haynes, Robyn (South African Geographical Journal, 2009)

In view of the large and increasing road traffic fatality burden in South Africa, this study describes the distribution of the risk of fatal road traffic injuries according to population and rural-urban characteristics ...
Adolescent homicide victimisation in Johannesburg, South Africa

Swart, Lu-Anne; Seedat, Mohamed; Vellema, Jeanine (MRC-UNISA, 2009)

In South Africa there has been growing national concern about the high levels of interpersonal violence especially among young people. Several incidents of school homicides in particular made newspaper headlines during ...
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE

Lau, Ursula (MRC-UNISA, 2009-06)

Intimate partner violence is abuse that takes places between individuals in an intimate relationship. Intimate partners may include boyfriends, girlfriends, and current and former spouses. The abuse can take various ...
Demographic and circumstantial accounts of burn mortality in

van Niekerk, Ashley; Laubscher, Ria; Laflamme, Lucie (BioMed Central, 2009-09-06)

Background: Burns are a persisting public health problem in low- and middle-income countries; however, epidemiologic data for these settings is scarce. South Africa is no exception although there is an emerging knowledge ...
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 ...
Towards the Development of a Responsive, Social Science-informed, Critical Public Health Framework on Male Interpersonal Violence

Ratele, Kopano; Suffla, Shahnaaz; Lazarus, Sandy; van Niekerk, Ashley (2010)

[No abstract available]
Why the Wretched Kill in Democratic South Africa

Seedat, Mohamed; Baw U.; Ratele, Kopano (2010)

[No abstract available]
When Relevance Decenters Criticality: The Case of the Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme

Seedat, Mohamed (2010)

Following the formal demise of political apartheid in South Africa in 1994, critical and community-centred psychologists have tended to obtain relevance through alignment with the tenets of social justice and the larger ...

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