Inge Petersen

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Influence of environmental factors on facial ageing.

Helle Rexbye, Inge Petersen, Mette Johansens, Louise Klitkou, Bernard Le Jeune, Kaare Christensen
Age and ageing
2006

BACKGROUND A recent twin study has shown that 'looking old for one's age' is associated with increased mortality. Approximately 40% of the variation in perceived age is due to non-genetic factors. … (More)

Psychosocial challenges and protective influences for socio-emotional coping of HIV+ adolescents in South Africa: a qualitative investigation.

Inge Petersen, Arvin Bhana, +5 authors Claude A Mellins
AIDS care
2010

INTRODUCTION While the roll-out of antiretroviral therapy in South Africa should lead to a reduction in mother to child transmission, mortality and orphaning, it will also be accompanied by a large… (More)

The VUKA family program: piloting a family-based psychosocial intervention to promote health and mental health among HIV infected early adolescents in South Africa.

Arvin Bhana, Claude A Mellins, +9 authors Mark McKay
AIDS care
2014

An increasing number of adolescents born with HIV in South Africa are on antiretroviral treatment and have to confront complex issues related to coping with a chronic, stigmatizing and transmittable… (More)

Comparison of academic performance of twins and singletons in adolescence: follow-up study.

Kaare Christensen, Inge Petersen, Axel E Skytthe, Anne Maria Herskind, Matt McGue, Paul Bingley
BMJ
2006

OBJECTIVES To determine whether twins in recent cohorts show similar academic performance in adolescence to singletons and to test the effect of birth weight on academic performance in twins and… (More)

Education and cognitive ability as direct, mediating, or spurious influences on female age at first birth: behavior genetic models fit to Danish twin data.

J. L. Rodgers, H. Kohler, +4 authors Kaare Christensen
AJS; American journal of sociology
2008

The authors study education and cognitive ability as predictors of female age at first birth (AFB), using monozygotic and dizygotic female twin pairs from the Middle-Aged Danish Twin survey. Using… (More)

Bridging the gap between VCT and HIV/AIDS treatment uptake: perspectives from a mining-sector workplace in South Africa.

Anil Bhagwanjee, Inge Petersen, Olagoke Akintola, Gavin George
African journal of AIDS research : AJAR
2008

This qualitative study sought to understand users' perceptions of the voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and HIV-treatment services offered by a mining company in South Africa, with the… (More)

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

Inge Petersen, C Driouichi Lund, Arvin Bhana, Alan J. Flisher
Health policy and planning
2012

BACKGROUND A recent situational analysis suggests that post-apartheid South Africa has made some gains with respect to the decentralization and integration of mental health into primary health care.… (More)

Prevalence of minor psychiatric disorders in an adult African rural community in South Africa.

Anil Bhagwanjee, Asha Parekh, Zubeda Paruk, Inge Petersen, H Subedar
Psychological medicine
1998

BACKGROUND This paper reports on a two-stage community-based epidemiological study of selected minor psychiatric disorders conducted on an adult African population in South Africa. METHODS Using a… (More)

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

Vicky Campbell-Hall, Inge Petersen, Arvin Bhana, Sithembile Mjadu, Victoria Hosegood, Alan J. Flisher
Transcultural psychiatry
2010

The majority of the black African population in South Africa utilize both traditional and public sector Western systems of healing for mental health care. There is a need to develop models of… (More)

Lessons from case studies of integrating mental health into primary health care in South Africa and Uganda

Inge Petersen, Joshua Ssebunnya, Arvin Bhana, Kim L Baillie
International journal of mental health systems
2011

BACKGROUND While decentralized and integrated primary mental healthcare forms the core of mental health policies in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), implementation remains a challenge.… (More)

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