Adolescent alcohol use in rural South African high schools.

Objective: To examine psychosocial correlates of lifetime alcohol use among adolescents in rural South African high schools.

Method: Questionnaires were administered to 1600 students from 20 randomly selected high schools in the Mankweng district within Limpopo province. Self-report data on alcohol use, demographic, environmental and psychosocial variables were collected.

Community influences on adolescents' use of home-brewed alcohol in rural South Africa.

Background: Alcohol represents a major public health challenge in South Africa, however little is known about the correlates of alcohol use among rural adolescents. This article examines community influences on adolescents' use of home-brewed alcohol in a rural region of South Africa.

Method: A total of 1600 high school adolescents between 11 and 16 years of age participated in this study.

Population processes allowing emigration of families.

"In the familiar immigration-birth-death process the events of immigration, birth and death relate to the individual. There are processes in which the whole family and not just an individual migrates. Such population growth models are studied in some detail.