Ermien van Pletzen

Biographic Data

ID6589966
NAMEErmien van Pletzen
GIVEN NAMESErmien
FAMILY NAMEvan Pletzen
SIGNATUREVAN PLETZEN E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cape Town
ORCID0000-0003-0350-6739
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Community-based workers’ capacity to develop inclusive livelihoods for youth with disabilities in Botswana

    Open AccessErmien van Pletzen, Bryson Nsama Kabaso et al.ARTICLEAfrican Journal of Disability2021

    Community-based workers have the capacity to provide valuable evidence and design strategy to facilitate the socio-economic inclusion of youth with disabilities. They are particularly adept at intervening at local levels but do not have sufficient confidence or capacity to mobilise supportive community structures or to exert influence at the level of policy formulation, decision-making and implementation

  • Establishing a Health Sciences writing centre in the changing landscape of South African Higher Education

    Open AccessNatashia Muna, Taahira Goolam Hoosen et al.ARTICLECritical Studies in Teaching and…2019References: 4

    This article describes, analyses, and reflects on the conceptualisation and establishment of a Writing Lab at a South African universityâ€TMs Faculty of Health Sciences. Drawing on the theoretical framework of New Literacy Studies, the academic literacies approach, and South African writing centre scholarship, the analysis revealed that the conceptualisation of the Writing Lab was primarily informed by the academic socialisation model but has sin…

  • Establishing a Health Sciences writing centre in the changing landscape of South African Higher Education

    Open AccessNatashia Muna, Taahira Goolam Hoosen et al.ARTICLECritical Studies in Teaching and…2019References: 3

    This article describes, analyses, and reflects on the conceptualisation and establishment of a Writing Lab at a South African university’s Faculty of Health Sciences. Drawing on the theoretical framework of New Literacy Studies, the academic literacies approach, and South African writing centre scholarship, the analysis revealed that the conceptualisation of the Writing Lab was primarily informed by the academic socialisation model but has since …

  • The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries

    Open AccessMargaret Booyens, Ermien van Pletzen et al.ARTICLEAfrican Journal of Disability2015

    An understanding of rural communities is fundamental to effective community-based rehabilitation work with persons with disabilities. By removing barriers to community participation, persons with disabilities are enabled to satisfy their fundamental human needs. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the challenges that rural community disability workers (CDWs) face in trying to realise these objectives. This qualitative interpretive st…

  • An exploratory analysis of community-based disability workers’ potential to alleviate poverty and promote social inclusion of people with disabilities in three Southern African countries

    Ermien van Pletzen, Margie Booyens et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2014Cited by: 3

    This article draws on accounts by community-based disability workers (CDWs) of their life and work experiences in resource-limited rural communities in Botswana, Malawi and South Africa. Using the World Health Organisation’s community-based rehabilitation (CBR) matrix and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals as analytic frameworks, the article explores CDWs’ potential to contribute to improving the lives and increasing the levels of s…

  • The size, characteristics and partnership networks of the health-related non-profit sector in three regions of South Africa

    Open AccessErmien van Pletzen, Rose Zulliger et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2014Cited by: 3References: 8

    BACKGROUND: Health-related community-based care in South Africa is mostly provided through non-profit organizations (NPOs), but little is known about the sector. In the light of emerging government policy on greater formalization of community-based care in South Africa, this article assesses the size, characteristics and partnership networks of health-related NPOs in three South African communities and explores implications of changing primary he…

  • Recall of early non-fatal suicidality in a nationally representative sample of South Africans

    Ermien van Pletzen, Dan J Stein et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2012References: 4

    The study provides novel evidence of increasing levels of early non-fatal suicidality recalled by younger South Africans. Levels appeared significantly higher in Whites than in Blacks. Socio-economic contexts in early life were interpreted as mediators rather than confounders of the association between race and recalled early suicidality. The findings for decreased levels of suicidality among participants growing up in lower socio-economic strata…