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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... Chronic Illness Decreased over Time? 20 Does Increased Immigration over Time Affect Population Health? 22 What Might the Future Health Status of Baby Boomers Look Like? 24 How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Health Care Utilization? 25 ...
... Chronic Illness for Males: A Recent Upturn 97 Higher Levels and Increases in Chronic Illness for Females 97 Rising Rates of Hypertension for Men 99 Some Concerning Trends in Hypertension for Women 103 Arthritis for Men: Still an Old-Age ...
... disease: smoking, unhealthy exercise, obesity, and heavy drinking. The recent declaration that we are experiencing an ... chronic illness, and, therefore, will break the public purse when they become the elderly of tomorrow. These ...
... chronic illnesses, and doctor visits. Intra- and inter-comparisons of all available five-year age-sex cohorts spanning the lifecycle of Canadians are conducted in order to identify past, current, and future patterns and their ...
... chronic diseases.' Second, age- relevant and irrelevant life course trends ... illness trajectories connected to their size, composition, earlier life ... chronic illness, and is constantly shifting due to relevant interrelationships ...
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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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