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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... Age Groups, Females, 1978/79–2000/01 98 7.3 Percentage of Canadian Population with Hypertension, Males 45+, 1978/79–2000/01 100 7.4 Percentage of Canadian Population with Hypertension, Females 45+, 1978/79–2000/01 102 7.5 Percentage of ...
... (aged 45–64) as well as among older persons (65+), which has helped to lower the prevalence of chronic conditions over the last several decades – an improvement due to the efforts of the 'new public health.' Statistics Canada (1999b) has ...
... aged 20 to 64 had at least some excess weight; and 29% of women and 39% of men of that age group were overweight. Moreover, the obesity rate (persons with BMI levels of 30 or more) was found to be 14.8% for women and 15.5% for men aged ...
... aged 45 to 64, 61% of those with diabetes were overweight (BMI = 28+) compared to only 38% of those without diabetes ... over the age of 15 consume alcoholic beverages (Single, Gliksman, and LeCavalier, 2000). In 1994, over half (58%) of ...
... aged 45 to 64 (James et al., 1997). Additionally, the risk of cardiovascular disease increases exponentially with the constellation of risk factors present, including smoking, inactivity, obesity, heavy drinking, and diabetes (Grundy ...
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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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