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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... Health Paradoxes 165 The Exercise-Obesity Paradox 165 Are the Patterns for Leisure-Time Physical Activity Similar? 165 Is Television the Culprit? 166 Is Work-Related Physical Activity the Problem for Adults? 168 Fast viii Contents.
... Adults? 168 Fast Food Super-Sized! 169 Explaining Food Consumption Patterns 174 Physical Activity: We Still Have a Long Way to Go 176 Reflections on the Exercise-Obesity Paradox 177 The Lifestyle-Health Status Paradox 178 12 Health ...
... adult years, baby boomers reacted against the values held by their parent's generation, formed in the 1940s and 1950s, choosing instead to embrace a spirit of individualism and freedom of behaviour that included experimentation with ...
... adults will grow once the 'boomers' reach their golden years. However, these predictions have come under attack because they sometimes oversimplify complex phenomena by applying what has been termed 'demographic determinism' or ...
... adults over age 65 until multiple baby boomer age cohorts hit their golden years. Furthermore, it will be at least 20 years before the aging of the baby boom generation significantly influences health service utilization because of the ...
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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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