Baby Boomer Health Dynamics: How Are We Aging?University of Toronto Press, 15/12/2005 - 300 من الصفحات Are the baby boomers in Canada more or less healthy than previous generations? What are the implications of this for the national health care system? Baby Boomer Health Dynamic responds to the growing interest in the generation that makes up over one-third of the Canadian population – the largest segment of society – with the leading edge reaching their sixty-fifth birthday in 2011 and eighty-five by 2031. Focusing on four health behaviours that have been proven to be major risk factors for disease: smoking, unhealthy exercise, obesity, and heavy drinking – Andrew V. Wister researches the long-term implications of several key lifestyle-health conundrums, most notably the paradoxical relationship in the concurrent trends over the last two decades of increased exercise levels and a significant rise in obesity. This invariably leads to questions about the eating habits of North Americans, and in particular, the quantity and quality of fast-food and convenience-food consumption. Recent public declarations by a number of health organizations and institutes that we are experiencing an obesity crisis, and moreover, that obesity is the 'new tobacco' makes Baby Boomer Health Dynamics both timely and topical. |
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... Furthermore, how will they influence future patterns of health status and health utilization across major social categories, such as gender, education, income, region, and foreign-born status? And do macro shifts in the economy or in ...
... Furthermore, the back end of the baby boom generation, about 2.6 million persons born between 1960 and 1966, are in their early to mid-30s and have been labelled Generation X (Foot, 1996). Since the birth cohorts of the early 1960s are ...
... Furthermore, Foot forecasts that bird watching and other leisure pursuits common among older adults will grow once the 'boomers' reach their golden years. However, these predictions have come under attack because they sometimes ...
... Furthermore, the degree to which baby boomers will either be the cause of, or will face, various 'crises' is controversial. Thus, there are both theoretical and empirical reasons why making relatively simplistic linear demographic ...
... Furthermore, it will be at least 20 years before the aging of the baby boom generation significantly influences health service utilization because of the obvious lag before they reach the age of 75 or over, at which point health needs ...
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Changes in Healthy Lifestyles for the Canadian Population | 66 |
A Population Health Problem | 86 |
Population Changes in Health Status and Health Utilization | 95 |
Comparative Health Dynamics of Baby Boomers | 119 |
Socioeconomic Status Region and ForeignBorn Status | 132 |
Summarizing Population and Baby Boomer Health Dynamics | 155 |
Explicating Two LifestyleHealth Paradoxes | 165 |
Health Policy Relevance Future Scenarios and Conclusions | 182 |
Appendix | 201 |
References | 225 |
Index | 241 |
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