The collectivity of drinking cultures: is the theory applicable to African settings?

摘要: AIMS: Skog's theory of collective drinking behaviour implies that countries with a strict informal social control alcohol would not exhibit 'collective displacement' consumption (a linear association between population mean and percentile values across the full range distribution), as do less control. This paper aimed to test this hypothesis by examining distributions in African strong alcohol. DESIGN SETTING, PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS: Data on from World Health Organization's general surveys 15 were aggregated analysed respect skewedness displacement distribution. FINDINGS: The distribution was strongly positively skewed, 10-15% drinkers consuming more than twice consumption. There also clear evidence distribution, predictor Correspondingly, predicted prevalence heavy drinkers. CONCLUSION: patterns are consistent those observed previously industrialized countries. These findings seem counter support universality observation problem is linked closely Language: en