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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... Analyses 51 The Selection of Health Surveys 51 The 1978/79 Canada Health Survey 52 The 1985 and 1990 Health Promotion Surveys 53 The National Population Health Surveys 54 The 1994/95 NPHS 55 The 1998/99 NPHS 56 The 2000/01 Community ...
... The unique research in Baby Boomer Health Dynamics includes a detailed health profiling and cohort analyses of data from a selection of major national Canadian health surveys between 1978/79 and 2000/2001 – a 22-year Preface.
... analyses. Since a consensus is lacking in the literature as to whether the baby boomers actually comprise a single homogeneous generation (Morgan, 1998a), the exploration of the health dynamics of younger and older baby boomers appears ...
... analyse health utilization patterns over two decades and have clearly demonstrated significant elevation in the cost of pharmaceuticals, doctor-patient ratios, and hospital services, suggesting greater health care intensity targeting ...
... analyses of health status and health care forecasts. Indeed, the most accurate predictions will likely not mirror the present, but will reflect the dynamics and complexity that underlie social and individual change. It is imperative ...
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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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