Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS): Recent submissions

  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Community-Based Participatory Research a Low-Income Setting: An Illustrative Case of Study 
    Lazarus, Sandy; Taliep, Naiema; Bulbulia, Abdulsamed; Phillips, Shaun; Seedat, Mohamed (Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2012-12)
    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 ...
  • The Philosophical Assumptions, Utility and Challenges of Asset Mapping 
    Kramer, Sherianne; Amos, Taryn; Lazarus, Sandy; Seedat, Mohamed (Taylor & Francis, 2012-12)
    This literature review is a discussion of asset-based approaches to community engagement. Following a literature search, we identified several asset mapping approaches: Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD); ...
  • Ukuphepha: A Multi-level Community Engagement Model for the Promotion of Safety Peace and HealthPromotion 
    Eksteen, Rodney; Bulbulia, Abdulsamed; van Niekerk, Ashley; Ismail, Ghouwa; Lekoba, Royal (Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2012-12)
    This article aims to describe a theoretically-informed community engagement model which delivers a suite of child safety, peace and health interventions.We provide an overview of critical concepts that inform the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Fire-arm Related Homicides in Gauteng 
    Ratele, Kopano; Seedat, Mohamed; van Niekerk, Ashley; Pretorius, Karin; Suffla, Shahnaaz (MRC-UNISA, 2013-02)
    This fact sheet reports on firearm-related homicide, recorded by the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS), at nine forensic pathology services in the province of Gauteng for 2011, the latest year for ...
  • Child Malnutrition 
    Ismail, Ghouwa; Suffla, Shahnaaz (MRC-UNISA, 2013)
    Malnutrition has become an urgent global health issue, with undernutrition killing or disabling millions of children each year. Malnutrition also prevents millions more from reaching their full intellectual and productive ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Developing the evidence-base for safe communities: A multi level, partly randomised, controlled trial 
    Seedat, Mohamed; McClure, R. (Taylor & Francis, 2012-12)
    Safe communities, representing a global activation of the public health logic, may be strengthened through theoretical, methodological and empirical support. In the spirit of this Special Issue that aims to analyse the ...
  • 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 ...

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