André Janse Van Rensburg

Biographic Data

ID1263518
NAMEAndré Janse Van Rensburg
GIVEN NAMESAndré Janse
FAMILY NAMEVan Rensburg
SIGNATUREVAN RENSBURG A J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
ORCID0000-0001-8880-2232
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR21
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Helping to improve demand for mental health services

    Open AccessMerridy Grant, Tasneem Kathree et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2026

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  • Reconceptualizing integrated people-centred health services

    Open AccessUsangiphile E Buthelezi, Arvin Bhana et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization's Framework on Integrated, People-Centred Health Services (IPCHS) proposes five interdependent strategies to guide health system transformation. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), implementation of IPCHS is often fragmented due to limited understanding of how its strategies interact in practice. Community Health Workers (CHWs), situated between households and formal health systems, offer a uniqu…

  • From face-to-face to e-learning

    Open AccessChristy-Joy Ras, Daniella Georgeu-Pepper et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Reliance on purely face-to-face in-service training for primary healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly unsustainable. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transition of the University of Cape Town Knowledge Translation Unit’s Practical Approach to Care Kit programme from a facility-based cascade model to online and blended learning formats. This paper analyses the implementation of this transition across 29 course…

  • A realist perspective on optimizing community health workers’ roles and functions to deliver integrated people-centred care

    Open AccessUsangiphile E Buthelezi, André Janse Van Rensburg et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a crucial role to support health care delivery in underserved communities. Although the value of CHWs’ contributions is widely recognised, there is limited evidence on the mechanisms that enable CHWs to deliver people-centred care. Using a realist evaluation approach guided by WHO’s Integrated People-Centred Health Services (IPCHS) framework, the study focused on how different contexts and mechanisms interact …

  • A learning health systems approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for integrated primary mental healthcare case finding and referral in South Africa

    Open AccessAndré Janse Van Rensburg, Nikiwe Hongo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Despite progress in the development and evaluation of evidence-based primary mental health interventions in low-income and middle-income countries, implementation and scale-up efforts have had mixed results. Considerable gaps remain in the effective translation of research knowledge into routine health system practices, largely due to real-world contextual constraints on implementation and scale-up efforts. The Southern African Research Consortiu…

  • Inverting the deficit model in global mental health

    Open AccessKaaren Mathias, Noah Bunkley et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Global mental health [GMH] scholarship and practice has typically focused on the unmet needs and barriers to mental health in communities, developing biomedical and psychosocial interventions for integration into formal health care platforms in response. In this article, we analyse four diverse settings to disrupt the emphasises on health system weaknesses, treatment gaps and barriers which can perpetuate harmful hierarchies and colonial and medi…

  • The feasibility of a Community Mental Health Education and Detection (CMED) tool in South Africa

    Open AccessMerridy Grant, Arvin Bhana et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2023

    Background: Poor mental health literacy, misinformation about treatment and stigma result in low demand for mental health services in low-and middle-income countries. Community-based interventions that raise mental health awareness and facilitate detection of mental health conditions, are instrumental in increasing demand through strengthened mental health literacy, as well as supply of available mental health services through strengthened detect…

  • Strengthening integrated depression services within routine primary health care using the RE-AIM framework in South Africa

    Open AccessInge Petersen, Christopher G Kemp et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Integration of mental health into routine primary health care (PHC) services in low-and middle-income countries is globally accepted to improve health outcomes of other conditions and narrow the mental health treatment gap. Yet implementation remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to identify implementation strategies that improve implementation outcomes of an evidence-based depression care collaborative implementation model integrated wi…

  • Applying learning health systems thinking in codeveloping integrated tuberculosis interventions in the contexts of Covid-19

    Open AccessAndré Janse Van Rensburg, Inge Petersen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic reversed much of global progress made in combatting tuberculosis, with South Africa experiencing one of the largest impacts on tuberculosis detection. The aim of this paper is to share our experiences in applying learning health systems (LHS) thinking to the codevelopment of an intervention improving an integrated response to COVID-19 and tuberculosis in a South African district. A sequential partially mixed-methods study wa…

  • HeAlth System StrEngThening in four sub-Saharan African countries (Asset) to achieve high-quality, evidence-informed surgical, maternal and newborn, and primary care

    Open AccessNadine Seward, C Hanlon et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    To achieve universal health coverage, health system strengthening (HSS) is required to support the of delivery of high-quality care. The aim of the National Institute for Health Research Global Research Unit on HeAlth System StrEngThening in Sub-Saharan Africa (ASSET) is to address this need in a four-year programme, with three healthcare platforms involving eight work-packages. Key to effective health system strengthening (HSS) is the pre-implem…

  • Covid-19 mental health impact and responses in low-income and middle-income countries

    Open AccessLola Kola, B A Kohrt et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Psychiatry2021

  • Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of implementation outcomes in an integrated mental healthcare trial in South Africa

    Open AccessAndré Janse Van Rensburg, Tasneem Kathree et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: Integrating mental health services into primary healthcare platforms is an established health systems strategy in low-to-middle-income countries. In South Africa, this was pursued through the Programme for Improving Mental Health Care (PRIME), a multi-country initiative that relied on task-sharing as a principle implementation strategy. Towards better describing the implementation processes, qualitative comparative analysis was adopte…

  • Reclaiming comprehensive public health

    Open AccessRene Loewenson, Kirsten Accoe et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Over the past 6 months, we have witnessed diversity in the spread and severity of the COVID-19 and in the nature and timing of \nresponses to it in different countries and contexts. Acute emergencies often mobilise a short spurt of attention and resources. \nCOVID-19 is, however, a protracted pandemic that spreads through and exacerbates socioeconomic inequalities and stresses health and democratic systems in a way that calls or sustained respons…

  • Reducing HIV- and TB-Stigma among healthcare co-workers in South Africa

    Open AccessNina Sommerland, Caroline Masquillier et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020References: 39

  • Politics of Mental Healthcare in Post-apartheid South Africa

    André Janse Van Rensburg, Rabia Khan et al.ARTICLEPolitikon2019References: 28

    Recent events in post-apartheid South Africa have exposed a decidedly political dimension to mental healthcare. This was exemplified in three important cases: the recent grants crisis of the South African Social Security Agency, a court case between the state and non-governmental organisations, and the Life Esidimeni tragedy. These events demonstrate that despite significant policy shifts toward basic human rights and care of people living with m…

  • Fighting stigma, promoting care

    Caroline Masquillier, Edwin Wouters et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2018

    Fear of breaches in confidentiality and HIV-related stigma in the workplace have been shown to be primary concerns and potential barriers to uptake of HIV testing and treatment by health care workers (HCWs) at the Occupational Health Unit (OHU). In a context of human resource shortages, it is essential to investigate potential ways of reducing HIV-related stigma and promoting confidentially in the workplace. Using Structural Equation Modelling (S…

  • State and non-state mental health service collaboration in a South African district

    Open AccessAndré Janse Van Rensburg, Inge Petersen et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018References: 60

    The Life Esidimeni tragedy in South Africa showed that, despite significant global gains in recognizing the salience of integrated public mental health care during the past decade, crucial gaps remain. State and non-state mental health service collaboration is a recognized strategy to increase access to care and optimal use of community resources, but little evidence exist about how it unfolds in low- to middle-income countries. South Africa's Me…

  • Collaborative mental health care in the bureaucratic field of post-apartheid South Africa

    André Janse Van Rensburg, Edwin Wouters et al.ARTICLEHealth Sociology Review2018Cited by: 1References: 47

    South Africa's long and arduous journey from colonial and apartheid-era care for people with mental illness to more comprehensive, equitable mental health care is well-described. Deeper engagement with the structural power dynamics involved in providing collaborative mental health services are less-well described, especially in its post-apartheid era. This conceptual article positions state and non-state mental health service providers – along wi…

  • Tuberculosis knowledge, attitudes and practices of patients at primary health care facilities in a South African metropolitan

    Open AccessGladys Kigozi, Christo Heunis et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    These findings highlight the need for health education efforts to strengthen accurate information dissemination to promote sound TB knowledge and attitudes among patients attending PHC facilities. Health education efforts should also capitalise on the positive finding of this study that information dissemination at PHC facilities increases good infection control practices

  • Power and Integrated Health Care

    Open AccessAndré Janse Van Rensburg, Asta Rau et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2016Cited by: 2References: 25

    Integrated care occurs within micro, meso and macro levels of governance structures, which are shaped by complex power dynamics. Yet theoretically-led notions of power, and scrutiny of its meanings and its functioning, are neglected in the literature on integrated care. We explore an alternative approach. Following a discussion on governance, two streams of theorising power are presented: mainstream and second-stream. Mainstream concepts are base…

  • Barriers to HIV counselling and testing uptake by health workers in three public hospitals in Free State Province, South Africa

    Rabia Khan, Annalee Yassi et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2015

    Recent WHO/ILO/UNAIDS guidelines recommend priority access to HIV services for health care workers (HCWs), in order to retain and support HCWs, especially those at risk of occupationally acquired tuberculosis (TB). The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to uptake of HIV counselling and testing (HCT) services for HCWs receiving HCT within occupational health units (OHUs). Questions were included within a larger occupational health surv…