List of works by Alan J Flisher

'Mental health is everybody's business': roles for an intersectoral approach in South Africa

scientific article published in January 2010

A model for community mental health services in South Africa

scientific article published on 22 June 2009

A pilot study of an intervention to prevent negative mental health consequences of forensic mortuary work.

scientific article published in February 2006

A prospective study of methamphetamine use as a predictor of high school non-attendance in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article

A review of studies of sexual behaviour of school students in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article

A systematic literature review of tobacco use among adults 15 years and older in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article

A systematic review of the relationship between high school dropout and substance use.

scientific article published on December 2007

A task shifting approach to primary mental health care for adults in South Africa: human resource requirements and costs for rural settings

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities

scientific article published on 24 August 2009

Adherence to treatment in poorer countries: a new research direction?

scientific article published in April 2007

Adolescent HIV prevalence, sexual risk, and willingness to participate in HIV vaccine trials

scientific article

Adolescent methamphetamine use and sexual risk behaviour in secondary school students in Cape Town, South Africa

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Alcohol use in South Africa: findings from the South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug use (SACENDU) Project.

scientific article published in July 2002

An HIV/AIDS knowledge scale for adolescents: item response theory analyses based on data from a study in South Africa and Tanzania

scientific article

An innovative inpatient psychotherapy unit in South Africa

scientific article published in October 2005

Association between psychopathology and substance use among school-going adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on December 2010

Associations among adolescent risk behaviours and self-esteem in six domains

scientific article published in November 2004

Associations between alcohol misuse and risks for HIV infection among men who have multiple female sexual partners in Cape Town, South Africa

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Associations between maternal closeness, suicidal ideation, and risk behaviors in Cape Town

scientific article published on 19 September 2008

Bed/population ratios in South African public sector mental health services

scientific article published in July 2002

Bias in a binary risk behaviour model subject to inconsistent reports and dropout in a South African high school cohort study

scientific article published in February 2009

Brief report: Social and neighbourhood correlates of adolescent drunkenness: a pilot study in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published in June 2004

Brief report: Test-retest reliability of self-reported adolescent risk behaviour.

scientific article published in April 2004

Brief report: methods for collecting sexual behaviour information from South African adolescents--a comparison of paper versus personal digital assistant questionnaires

scientific article

Bullying, violence, and risk behavior in South African school students.

scientific article published on 20 February 2007

Can peer education make a difference? Evaluation of a South African adolescent peer education program to promote sexual and reproductive health

scientific article published on November 2011

Characterization of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders among individuals starting antiretroviral therapy in South Africa

scientific article published in August 2011

Child and adolescent mental health in South Africa

scientific article published in October 2012

Children's mental health in Afghanistan

scientific article published on 21 August 2009

Collaboration between traditional practitioners and primary health care staff in South Africa: developing a workable partnership for community mental health services

scientific article published in September 2010

Community perspectives on the ethical issues surrounding adolescent HIV vaccine trials in South Africa

scientific article published on 07 September 2008

Community/hospital indicators in South African public sector mental health services

scientific article published in December 2003

Correlates of intention to use condoms among Sub-Saharan African youth: the applicability of the theory of planned behaviour

scientific article

Dating violence among school students in Tanzania and South Africa: prevalence and socio-demographic variations

scientific article

Delirium among children and adolescents in an urban sub-Saharan African setting

scientific article published on August 2010

Delirium in children and adolescents: A systematic review of the literature

scientific article published on 12 January 2010

Development and test-retest reliability of a research instrument designed to evaluate school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in South Africa and Tanzania

scientific article published on June 2009

Diagnosis and management of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy

scientific article published on July 2004

Does highly active antiretroviral therapy improve neurocognitive function? A systematic review

scientific article published on March 2010

Does the impact factor have too much impact?

scientific article published in April 2009

Effectiveness of respondent-driven sampling to recruit high risk heterosexual men who have multiple female sexual partners: differences in HIV prevalence and sexual risk behaviours measured at two time points

scientific article published on December 2010

Effects of HealthWise South Africa on condom use self-efficacy

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Epidemiological measurement of children's and adolescents' exposure to community violence: working with the current state of the science

scientific article

Evaluations of health promoting schools: a review of nine studies

scientific article published in September 2004

Experience of mental disorder in the context of basic service reforms: the impact on caregiving environments in South Africa.

scientific article published in October 2007

Gender differences in depression and smoking among youth in Cape Town, South Africa.

scientific article published in January 2006

HIV education in South African schools: the dilemma and conflicts of educators

scientific article published in June 2009

HIV risk behaviours and their relationship to intimate partner violence (IPV) among men who have multiple female sexual partners in Cape Town, South Africa.

scientific article published in January 2011

Handheld computers for survey and trial data collection in resource-poor settings: development and evaluation of PDACT, a Palm Pilot interviewing system

scientific article

Heroin users in Cape Town, South Africa: injecting practices, HIV-related risk behaviors, and other health consequences

scientific article published in September 2008

I am not "umqwayito'': a qualitative study of peer pressure and sexual risk behaviour among young adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published in June 2009

Impact of HealthWise South Africa on polydrug use and high-risk sexual behavior

scientific article

Implementing the World Health Report 2001 recommendations for integrating mental health into primary health care: a situation analysis of three African countries: Ghana, South Africa and Uganda

scientific article published on January 2010

Inconsistent reports of sexual intercourse among South African high school students

scientific article published on 21 December 2007

Injury-related behaviour among South African high-school students at six sites.

scientific article

Introducing the journal of child and adolescent mental health.

scientific article published in March 2003

Leisure boredom and adolescent risk behaviour: a systematic literature review

scientific article published on June 2009

Measurement of risk and protective factors for drug use and anti-social behavior among high school students in South Africa

scientific article published in January 2002

Measuring adolescents' exposure to violence and related PTSD symptoms: Reliability of an adaptation of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire

scientific article published in July 2004

Media messaging: a synthesis of lessons from the literature to inform HIV prevention amongst young people

scientific article published on October 2006

Medical Conditions of Hazardous Drinkers and Drug Users in Primary Care Clinics in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article

Medical conditions of adolescents in alcohol and drug treatment: comparison with matched controls

scientific article published on 29 November 2006

Mental and physical health of out of school children in a South African township

scientific article published in December 2002

Mental health is integral to public health: a call to scale up evidence-based services and develop mental health research.

scientific article published in June 2008

Mental health of young people: a global public-health challenge

scientific article

Mental health policy development and implementation in four African countries

scientific article published on May 2007

Mental health policy in Africa.

scientific article published in May 2010

Mental health policy in South Africa: Development process and content

scientific article published on 26 June 2009

Mental health policy process: a comparative study of Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia

scientific article

Mental health promotion initiatives for children and youth in contexts of poverty: the case of South Africa

scientific article published on 22 April 2010

Mental health service users' perceptions and experiences of sedation, seclusion and restraint.

scientific article published in January 2010

Mental illness and lost income among adult South Africans

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Methamphetamine ("tik") use and its association with condom use among out-of-school females in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article

Methamphetamine use, aggressive behavior and other mental health issues among high-school students in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 12 January 2010

Multi-level influence of school norms on tobacco use in South Africa: an ecometric consideration of group differences

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

Norms for mental health services in South Africa

scientific article published on 29 March 2006

Packages of care for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in low- and middle-income countries

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Parental education as an indicator of socioeconomic status: improving quality of data by requiring consistency across measurement occasions

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Pathways to inpatient mental health care among people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in South Africa

scientific article published in March 2010

Peer education training for sexual health and well-being in public high schools in South Africa: Is it enough to change peer educators themselves?

scientific article published on January 2013

Planning for district mental health services in South Africa: A situational analysis of a rural district site

scientific article published on 15 January 2009

Predictors of early first sexual intercourse among adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa

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Prevalence and correlates of partner violence among South African adolescents

scientific article published on June 2007

Prevalence and correlates of substance use among South African primary care clinic patients

scientific article

Process evaluation of a school-based HIV/AIDS intervention in South Africa.

scientific article published in June 2009

Process evaluation of the teacher training for an AIDS prevention programme

scientific article published in June 2006

Promoting child and adolescent mental health in low and middle income countries

scientific article published on 17 December 2007

Promoting sexual and reproductive health in early adolescence in South Africa and Tanzania: development of a theory- and evidence-based intervention programme

scientific article

Public sector mental health systems in South Africa: inter-provincial comparisons and policy implications

scientific article published on 09 June 2009

RETRACTION: Sociodemographic variations in communication on sexuality and HIV/AIDS with parents, family members and teachers among in-school adolescents: A multi-site study in Tanzania and South Africa

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Rates of missing responses in personal digital assistant (PDA) versus paper assessments

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Reducing the treatment gap for mental disorders: a WPA survey ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Reliability of self report questionnaires for epidemiological investigations of adolescent mental health in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published in December 2011

Reliability of the Beck Depression Inventory and the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale in a sample of South African adolescents

scientific article published on September 2003

Scaling up child and adolescent mental health services in South Africa: human resource requirements and costs.

scientific article published on 20 February 2009

School-based HIV/AIDS prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa.

scientific article published in June 2009

Secular trends in risk behaviour of Cape Town grade 8 students.

scientific article

Sexual behaviour of Cape Town high-school students.

scientific article published in July 2003

Sexual coercion and adolescent risk behaviour: a systematic literature review

scientific article published on December 2009

Sexual health, HIV risk, and retention in an adolescent HIV-prevention trial preparatory cohort

scientific article

Sexual partners in a rural South African setting

scientific article published in July 2006

Smoking in Cape Town: community influences on adolescent tobacco use.

scientific article published on January 2003

Social networks' influence on tobacco use among students in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

scientific article

Sociodemographic variations in communication on sexuality and HIV/AIDS with parents, family members and teachers among in-school adolescents: a multi-site study in Tanzania and South Africa

scientific article

South African teachers' reflections on the impact of culture on their teaching of sexuality and HIV/AIDS.

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Staff/bed and staff/patient ratios in South African public sector mental health services.

scientific article published on February 2002

Staff/population ratios in South African public sector mental health services.

scientific article published in February 2002

Stakeholder's perceptions of help-seeking behaviour among people with mental health problems in Uganda

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Stress, substance use and sexual risk behaviors among primary care patients in Cape Town, South Africa

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Substance abuse and behavioral correlates of sexual assault among South African adolescents

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Substance abuse, suicidality, and self-esteem in South African adolescents

scientific article published in January 2004

Substance use and sexual risk behavior among South African eighth grade students

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Substance use and sexual risk prevention in Cape Town, South Africa: an evaluation of the HealthWise program

scientific article published on 7 October 2008

Substance use by adolescents in Cape Town: prevalence and correlates

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Suicide trends in South Africa, 1968--90.

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Synergistic opportunities: mental health and HIV/AIDS.

scientific article published in August 2009

Teachers' confidence in teaching HIV/AIDS and sexuality in South African and Tanzanian schools

scientific article published in June 2009

The South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU) project, phases 1-8--cannabis and Mandrax.

scientific article published in July 2002

The South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU): description, findings (1997-99) and policy implications

scientific article published in August 2002

The assessment of need for mental health services

scientific article

The association between psychopathology and substance use in young people: a review of the literature

scientific article published on March 2010

The association between students' perceptions of a caring teacher and sexual initiation. A study among South African high school students

scientific article published on 16 May 2011

The association between substance use and common mental disorders in young adults: results from the South African Stress and Health (SASH) Survey

scientific article published on 18 January 2014

The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa

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The diagnosis and treatment of delirium in children

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The quality of HIV testing services for adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa: do adolescent-friendly services make a difference?

scientific article published on 27 September 2008

The relationship between substance use and delinquency among high-school students in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 28 February 2013

The role of medical conditions and primary care services in 5-year substance use outcomes among chemical dependency treatment patients

scientific article published on 20 June 2008

The theory of planned behaviour as a framework for predicting sexual risk behaviour in sub-Saharan African youth: A critical review

scientific article published on July 2012

The time is now: missed opportunities to address patient needs in community clinics in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article

Traditional healer attitudes and beliefs regarding referral of the mentally ill to Western doctors in South Africa

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Traditional healers in the treatment of common mental disorders in South Africa

scientific article published on June 2009

Training in child and adolescent psychiatry for primary health care nurses in South Africa.

scientific article published in October 2004

Transmissible cancer in Africa – Authors' reply

scientific article published in The Lancet

Trends in adolescent alcohol and other drug use: findings from three sentinel sites in South Africa (1997-2001).

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Unsafe sexual behaviour in South African youth

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Who are the peer educators? HIV prevention in South African schools

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

Written parental consent in school-based HIV/AIDS prevention research.

scientific article

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