School violence continues to be highly prevalent in many low-income communities in South Africa. This study made use of an interpretive research paradigm to explore educators' subjective views of school violence in Alexandra. Participants were 12 educators at selected government schools with at least 5 years teaching experience. Individual interviews were carried out to explore these educators' experiences and subjective understandings of factors contributing to school violence. Thematic content analysis was used to report results at the individual, family, school, community and societal levels which educators perceived to play a role in school violence. At an individual and familial level age, mental health and child rearing arose as risk factors of school violence. Educators also signalled relational concerns within the institutional and leadership structures in schools as well as tensions between staff and learners as school factors. Whereas socio-political changes in South Africa, poverty, a lack of resources and the availability of illicit substances within the community were raised as community and societal risk factors for school violence. Language: en
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Y. Ally, D. Goldberg, R. Lekoba, M. Seedat, S. Suffla
The World Health Organization (WHO) designates 1 October each year as the International Day of the Older Person. As such, the University of South Africa (UNISA) Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) hosted two events - one in Eldorado Park and another in Lenasia, South Africa - to celebrate the day. Having recently developed and undertaken a safety audit of old age homes in these areas, the ISHS and Medical Research Council-University of South Africa (MRC-UNISA) Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme (CVI) arranged two exciting days on 29 September 2009 and 01 October 2009 for the elderly. These occasions were infused with celebration, information dissemination, discussion and collaboration regarding their needs for safety and peace.
{"title":"International Day of the Older Person 2009 : community engagement","authors":"Y. Ally, D. Goldberg, R. Lekoba, M. Seedat, S. Suffla","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V7I2.70419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V7I2.70419","url":null,"abstract":"The World Health Organization (WHO) designates 1 October each year as the International Day of the Older Person. As such, the University of South Africa (UNISA) Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) hosted two events - one in Eldorado Park and another in Lenasia, South Africa - to celebrate the day. Having recently developed and undertaken a safety audit of old age homes in these areas, the ISHS and Medical Research Council-University of South Africa (MRC-UNISA) Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme (CVI) arranged two exciting days on 29 September 2009 and 01 October 2009 for the elderly. These occasions were infused with celebration, information dissemination, discussion and collaboration regarding their needs for safety and peace.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"521 1","pages":"53-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80120292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The 15thSouth African Psychology Congress of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) was hosted at the International Convention Centre in Cape Town (CTICC), South Africa. The congress, under the theme Psychology : Past, Present and Future, took place from 11 to 14 August 2009. The first day was taken up by workshops that focused on, amongst other topics, forensic and neuropsychology, early interventions of alcohol, and ethics.
{"title":"15 Th South African Psychology Congress, Cape Town, South Africa","authors":"Lebohang Letsela, Y. Ally","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V7I2.70418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V7I2.70418","url":null,"abstract":"The 15thSouth African Psychology Congress of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) was hosted at the International Convention Centre in Cape Town (CTICC), South Africa. The congress, under the theme Psychology : Past, Present and Future, took place from 11 to 14 August 2009. The first day was taken up by workshops that focused on, amongst other topics, forensic and neuropsychology, early interventions of alcohol, and ethics.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"4 1","pages":"51-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81949152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The 9th Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference was held in Melbourne, Australia, from 24 to 26 July 2009. This conference formed part of a series of conferences initiated in 1993 by the Monash University's Accident Research Centre (MOARC) in partnership with the Australian Injury Prevention Network and other agencies. Following collective experience in the sector, the conference was focused on childhood injury, drowning / water safety, occupational injuries, transport safety, injury data systems, trauma care, policy and programme evaluations, and violence, alcohol and suicide.
{"title":"9 Th Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, Melbourne, Australia","authors":"R. Ahmed, M. Seedat, S. Suffla","doi":"10.4314/asp.v7i2.70417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/asp.v7i2.70417","url":null,"abstract":"The 9th Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference was held in Melbourne, Australia, from 24 to 26 July 2009. This conference formed part of a series of conferences initiated in 1993 by the Monash University's Accident Research Centre (MOARC) in partnership with the Australian Injury Prevention Network and other agencies. Following collective experience in the sector, the conference was focused on childhood injury, drowning / water safety, occupational injuries, transport safety, injury data systems, trauma care, policy and programme evaluations, and violence, alcohol and suicide.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"56 1","pages":"49-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74621315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The 1st Southern African Students Psychology Conference was hosted as a collaboration between the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the University of Botswana over two days, 26 and 27 June 2009, at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. It was well attended by students from universities across South Africa and Botswana, as well as young and senior academics from various African countries, including Zambia, Dakar, Senegal and Malaysia.
{"title":"1 St Southern African Students Psychology Conference, Gaborone, Botswana","authors":"Y. Ally, Lebohang Letsela, D. Goldberg","doi":"10.4314/asp.v7i2.70416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/asp.v7i2.70416","url":null,"abstract":"The 1st Southern African Students Psychology Conference was hosted as a collaboration between the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the University of Botswana over two days, 26 and 27 June 2009, at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. It was well attended by students from universities across South Africa and Botswana, as well as young and senior academics from various African countries, including Zambia, Dakar, Senegal and Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"16 1","pages":"47-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73202366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seasons of hunger : Fighting cycles of quiet starvation among the world's rural poor, Stephen Devereaux, Bapu Vaitla and Samuel Hauenstein Swan : book review","authors":"C. V. Z. Schalekamp","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V7I2.70420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V7I2.70420","url":null,"abstract":"Title: Seasons of hunger: Fighting cycles of quiet starvation among the world’s rural poor Authors: Stephen Devereaux, Bapu Vaitla and Samuel Hauenstein Swan Publication Date:2008 Publisher: Pluto Press ISBN: 978 0 7453 2826 3 (Paperback, 148 pages)","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"2 1","pages":"55-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75149835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
South Africa has extremely high incidence rates of fatal and non-fatal injuries due to interpersonal violence, pedestrian–motor vehicle collisions, burns, falls and other unintentional causes. While the actual cost associated with these injuries remains relatively unknown, the estimated direct cost of the medical treatment, rehabilitation and administration of these victims may run into billions of rands. This public–private injury costing pilot study (hereafter the study) was conducted at a tertiary public health facility in Johannesburg, South Africa (hereafter the public facility). The study attempted to facilitate further costing capacity through skills transfers from personnel at a sentinel private health facility in Johannesburg (hereafter the private hospital) to selected personnel within the identified public facility, and through the determination of the partial baseline direct medical cost of the treatment of gun shot wounds, pedestrian–motor vehicle collision injuries, falls and burns at the public facility. Both the capacity building component and the actual study were complicated by a number of obstacles, including limited personnel, poor costing and billing capacity, underdeveloped billing documentation and recording procedures, and limited levels of investment in the general practice of injury costing in the public health sector itself. This article examines the practical challenges facing further attempts to describe the cost of injuries in South Africa. It concludes with several critical reflections on concerns associated with an uncritical pursuit of the roll-out of a national injury costing system, which may have a negative impact on
{"title":"Towards a National Injury Costing System?:Lessons from a Public-Private Injury Costing Pilot Study in South Africa","authors":"Garth Stevens, B. Bowman","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V7I2.54592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V7I2.54592","url":null,"abstract":"South Africa has extremely high incidence rates of fatal and non-fatal injuries due to interpersonal violence, pedestrian–motor vehicle collisions, burns, falls and other unintentional causes. While the actual cost associated with these injuries remains relatively unknown, the estimated direct cost of the medical treatment, rehabilitation and administration of these victims may run into billions of rands. This public–private injury costing pilot study (hereafter the study) was conducted at a tertiary public health facility in Johannesburg, South Africa (hereafter the public facility). The study attempted to facilitate further costing capacity through skills transfers from personnel at a sentinel private health facility in Johannesburg (hereafter the private hospital) to selected personnel within the identified public facility, and through the determination of the partial baseline direct medical cost of the treatment of gun shot wounds, pedestrian–motor vehicle collision injuries, falls and burns at the public facility. Both the capacity building component and the actual study were complicated by a number of obstacles, including limited personnel, poor costing and billing capacity, underdeveloped billing documentation and recording procedures, and limited levels of investment in the general practice of injury costing in the public health sector itself. This article examines the practical challenges facing further attempts to describe the cost of injuries in South Africa. It concludes with several critical reflections on concerns associated with an uncritical pursuit of the roll-out of a national injury costing system, which may have a negative impact on","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80819561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Both the public and private sectors have acted responsibly to help decrease smoking-related deaths by putting health warnings on all cigarette packages. This study investigated the social or demographic factors associated with public awareness of health warnings on the harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke based on baseline data collected by the South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Respondents in the survey were asked to recall the number of anti-smoking messages which appeared as warning messages on cigarette advertisements. The number of anti-smoking messages recalled ranged from 0 to 9 with a mean of 3.09 (variance of 5.99) and a median of 3.00. Because the variance was nearly two times greater than the mean, the negative binomial regression model provided an improved fit to the data and accounted better for overdispersion than the Poisson regression model, which assumed that the mean and variance are the same. The level of education and race were found to be the most significant factors. Moreover, the lower socio-economic class nonsmokers’ anti-smoking messages recalling rate was 2.5 times that of the lower socio-economic class smokers. Unlike men, women’s anti-smoking message response rate increased with income.
{"title":"Application of Negative Binomial Regression for Assessing Public Awareness of the Health Effects of Nicotine and Cigarettes","authors":"T. Zewotir, S. Ramroop","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V7I1.54600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V7I1.54600","url":null,"abstract":"Both the public and private sectors have acted responsibly to help decrease smoking-related deaths by putting health warnings on all cigarette packages. This study investigated the social or demographic factors associated with public awareness of health warnings on the harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke based on baseline data collected by the South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Respondents in the survey were asked to recall the number of anti-smoking messages which appeared as warning messages on cigarette advertisements. The number of anti-smoking messages recalled ranged from 0 to 9 with a mean of 3.09 (variance of 5.99) and a median of 3.00. Because the variance was nearly two times greater than the mean, the negative binomial regression model provided an improved fit to the data and accounted better for overdispersion than the Poisson regression model, which assumed that the mean and variance are the same. The level of education and race were found to be the most significant factors. Moreover, the lower socio-economic class nonsmokers’ anti-smoking messages recalling rate was 2.5 times that of the lower socio-economic class smokers. Unlike men, women’s anti-smoking message response rate increased with income.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"3 1","pages":"14-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73459175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This cross-sectional study examined the extent, nature and risk factors of workplace violence in the road passenger transport sector in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique. A random sample of 504 participants was selected from a population of 2 618 registered bus, minibus, and taxi drivers/conductors. The results indicated that workplace violence, psychological as well as physical, is highly prevalent among drivers/conductors, with 77% reporting ever being abused and 64% reporting being abused during the past 12 months. Particularly vulnerable groups comprised illiterate employees, bus drivers/conductors, employees with long experience, and those holding a supervisory position. In addition, a high workload was associated with an increased likelihood of exposure to workplace violence in the road passenger transport sector. This article discusses the implications of the findings for possible interventions and further research.
{"title":"Violence Against Drivers and Conductors in the Road Passenger Transport Sector in Maputo, Mozambique","authors":"M. T. Couto, S. Lawoko, L. Svanström","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V7I2.70414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V7I2.70414","url":null,"abstract":"This cross-sectional study examined the extent, nature and risk factors of workplace violence in the road passenger transport sector in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique. A random sample of 504 participants was selected from a population of 2 618 registered bus, minibus, and taxi drivers/conductors. The results indicated that workplace violence, psychological as well as physical, is highly prevalent among drivers/conductors, with 77% reporting ever being abused and 64% reporting being abused during the past 12 months. Particularly vulnerable groups comprised illiterate employees, bus drivers/conductors, employees with long experience, and those holding a supervisory position. In addition, a high workload was associated with an increased likelihood of exposure to workplace violence in the road passenger transport sector. This article discusses the implications of the findings for possible interventions and further research.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"123 1","pages":"17-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91111693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
To mark the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children (25 November - 10 December) the University of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences (Unisa-ISHS) held a dialogue at the Don Mateman Hall in Eldorado Park. The convener of the event was Royal Lekoba. Over 90 community members participated in the event. Speakers included Inspector Basset of the Victim Empowerment Centre of the South African Police Services (SAPS) in Eldorado Park. She painted a picture of violence against women and children in the area. Basset addressed various problems affecting the Eldorado Park area, in particular domestic violence which is a major concern. From January 2008 until November 2008, 69 cases of assault resulting in serious injuries were reported for the area. Basset also stated that 537 applications for protection orders had been filed for the period. Abandoned children, substance abuse as well as school-related gangsterism were highlighted as other key issues affecting the youth in the area.
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