African Safety Promotion: 2001

A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention

JOURNAL AIMS AND SCOPE
African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention (ASP) is a forum for discussion and debate among scholars, policy-makers and practitioners active in the field of injury prevention and safety promotion. ASP seeks to promote research and dialogue around a central public health issue that affects Africa, namely injury and violence.

SUBJECT COVERAGE
Issues of the ASP s predecessor, the Institute for Social and Health Sciences Monograph Series, addressed a variety of injury and violence related topics, for example:

• injury surveillance methodologies
• costing techniques
• epidemiological research findings
• health systems research
• theoretical formulations of the risks and resiliences associated with violence and injuries in low- to middle-income contexts
• theoretical and research investigations of the benchmark injury prevention and containment interventions

ASP is administered by the Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme. The Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme was established in October 2001 and is jointly managed and developed by the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) and the UNISA Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS). The brief of this Programme is to contribute to injury prevention and safety promotion in South Africa and more widely in Africa. The Programme thus seeks to contribute to and promote the continent's health status, safety, and quality of life, specifically through public-health- orientated research aimed at preventing death, disability and suffering arising from crime, violence and unintentional injury.

ASP seeks to promote research and dialogue about injury and violence on the continent. As such, the journal will publish a spectrum of topics of interest to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in the injury and violence prevention sector. All articles in the journal are subject to peer review. The following panel has been constructed to oversee this:

Editors-in-Chief:

• Mohamed Seedat, MRC-UNISA Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme, and University of South Africa
• Norman Duncan, MRC-UNISA Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme, and University of South Africa

Issue editor:

• Garth Stevens, MRC-UNISA Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme and University of South Africa

Editorial assistant:

• Jonathan Roper, University of South Africa

Editorial committee:

• Richard Matzopoulos, Medical Research Council
• Garth Stevens, University of South Africa
• Shahnaaz Suffla, University of the Western Cape
• Martin Terreblanche, University of South Africa
• Ashley van Niekerk, Medical Research Council

Editorial board:

• Mahomed Dada, Forensic Pathologist, Vereeniging
• Samuel Forjuoh, Texas Agricultural & Mechanical University
• Olive Kobusingye, Ugandan Injury Control Centre
• Dinesh Mohan, Indian Institute of Technology
• Wilson Odero, Moi University

ASP will be published biannually and will feature original full-length articles, theoretical papers, reviews, and short communications.

Copyright 2003 African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owners.

ISSN: 1728-774X
PUBLISHER Published on behalf of the MRC-UNISA Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme, with the financial assistance of the National Research Foundation.

Contents

EDITORIAL
A New Journal for the Promotion of Injury Prevention in Africa, Ashley van Niekerk and Norman Duncan

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

• Extending the Boundaries of Injury Prevention Theory, Research and Practice in Africa, Mohamed Seedat
• A Profile of Fatal Injuries in South Africa: Towards a Platform for Safety Promotion, Richard Matzopoulos, Ashley van Niekerk, Sandra Marais and Hilton Donson
• A Qualitative Evaluation of Medico-Legal Services in Gauteng, South Africa: Service Accessibility and Quality of Care to Rape Survivors, Shahnaaz Suffla, Mohamed Seedat and Anabela Nascimento

SHORT RESEARCH ARTICLES

• Patterns of Road Traffic Injuries and Associated Factors among School-aged Children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, L.M. Museru, M.T. Leshabari and N.A.A. Mbembati
• Childhood Burn Injuries in Children in Dar es Salaam: Patterns and Perceptions of Prevention, N.A.A. Mbembati, L.M. Museru and M.T. Leshabari

LITERATURE REVIEWS

• A Review of Best Practice Home Visitation Interventions for Childhood Injury Reduction, Susanne Bender, Ashley Van Niekerk, Mohamed Seedat and Salla Atkins
• Towards a South African Injury Costing Model: A Review of the Literature for the Development of a Process Path, Brett Bowman

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body, Alex Butchart; reviewed by Martin Terre Blanche
• Community Psychology: Theory, Method and Practice. South African and Other Perspectives, M. Seedat (Editor) and N. Duncanand S. Lazarus (Consulting Editors); reviewed by Anthony Naidoo

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• Injury Prevention Initiative for Africa: Achievements and Challenges, Ronald Lett and Olive Kobusingye
• Considerations and Limitations to the Development of a Global Injury Costing Model: Conference Report, Susanne Bender and Brett Bowman
• Injury Control and Traffic Safety Training Course Report Back, Salla Atkins and Anesh Sukhai
• Montreal Declaration: People’s Right to Safety, 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control