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Abstract
Background
The development, implementation and evaluation of community interventions are important for reducing child violence and injuries in low- to middle-income ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...