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Alan J. Flisher
Researcher at University of Cape Town
Publications - 280
Citations - 22100
Alan J. Flisher is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Population. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 280 publications receiving 20444 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan J. Flisher include Boston Children's Hospital & University of Bergen.
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Substance abuse, suicidality, and self-esteem in South African adolescents.
TL;DR: Interventions which aim to protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviors by increasing their self-esteem are likely to be most effective and cost-efficient if they are aimed at the family and school domains.
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Mental health promotion initiatives for children and youth in contexts of poverty: the case of South Africa
TL;DR: From this review, strengths and gaps in existing micro- and community-level evidence-based mental health promotion interventions as well as macro-policy-level initiatives are identified, and recommendations made for South Africa that may also have applicability for other LMICs.
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The relationship between substance use and delinquency among high-school students in Cape Town, South Africa
TL;DR: Gender and delinquency were predictive of delinquency and smoking significantly interacted with delinquent-type behaviour to increase future risk of this behaviour, pointing to the need for intervening early with adolescents who show delinquency.
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Community/hospital indicators in South African public sector mental health services.
Crick Lund,Alan J. Flisher +1 more
TL;DR: Community/hospital staff distribution indicates an overemphasis on centralised hospital-based care in most provinces and inadequate hospital care in certain provinces, and patterns of patient service utilisation indicate an over-reliance on central hospital- based services and substantial unmet need.
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Urbanisation and adolescent risk behaviour.
Alan J. Flisher,D. O. Chalton +1 more
TL;DR: Mental health promotion efforts may be informed by further research aimed at the identification of the characteristics of risk behaviour that determine whether it is associated with urbanisation; and where applicable, the specific aspects of the urbanisation process that contribute to an increase in risk.