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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... decades of increased exercise levels and a significant rise in obesity. This paradox raises questions about the eating habits of North Americans, particularly in regard to fast food consumption. Providing a wealth of data and insightful ...
... decades. In addition, two 10-year age cohorts comprising the 20-year baby boom generation (younger and older boomers) are compared and contrasted for the purpose of detailing heterogeneity within this generation. The influence of ...
... decades. In order to explain these disconnecting patterns, changes in leisure-time physical activity, work-related activity, eating habits, fast food super-sizing, and environmental factors influencing healthy lifestyles are ...
... decades. This was primarily the result of two converging trends: a rise in the post-Second World War marriage rate, and families having more children closer together. In his popular 1996 book, Boom, Bust, and Echo: How to Profit from ...
... decades, but will obviously gain momentum as the baby boomers move through the top of the age pyramid. For instance, the proportion of Canadians aged 65 and over was 7.6% in 1961, 8.1% in 1971, 9.7% in 1981, 11.6% in 1991, and 13% in ...
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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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